{"id":48225,"date":"2024-07-28T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T09:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/?p=48225"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:28:37","slug":"new-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/encore-des-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"New revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear readers, do you remember the journalist who has interviewed me on a few occasions? Well, the young woman approached me with new questions yesterday. Will I play along? I glance at her email; she begins with the query\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWhy did you keep your husband\u2019s last name after divorcing him?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cAfter escaping from our home, I left my kids with my parents to quickly find work. It was December 1980, and I took a job as a hostess in a popular restaurant in the Greater Montreal area. In less than a year, I had moved up to become the daytime manager and then the general manager 5 months later. I worked there for 6\u00bd years until I landed in bed from a serious burnout. One day, after recovering, I was driving my eldest son to work when I saw a \u201cRESTAURANT FOR SALE\u201d sign in a window. The small location became a Chez Cora restaurant, and I became Madame Cora. Do you think I had time back then to start the application to change my surname? DEFINITELY NOT! Legally I wasn\u2019t obligated to take my maiden name again. I simply preferred to save my money rather than go through all the paperwork required to rid me of his last name. Nobody knows his first name, so it\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cYou often talk about your marriage as your biggest regret. However, you seem like an optimist who knows how to get herself out of a bad situation. You got married because you were pregnant with your first child. Tell us about the 3 greatest things your marriage brought you.\u201d
\u2014 \u201cHaving studied Greek civilization at college as a young girl, I knew many Ancient Greek words, so I quickly grasped the modern version. It was a rare wedding gift that I still appreciate today. Same goes for the Greek cuisine I learned in no time with my sisters-in-law. I also spent 6 months in a small village in Greece where I cooked with my husband\u2019s mother every day. She\u2019d compliment my cooking and her beloved son also enjoyed my food. Lastly, my children will always remain the greatest gifts life gave me through this rickety marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWhat's the last book you finished reading and which one have you just started?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cFor no particular reason, I\u2019d never read any of the books of Haitian-Canadian writer Dany Laferri\u00e8re, but I recently read his last book, \u201cUn certain art de vivre\u201d \u2013 only 134 pages. I really loved his dazzling and profound thoughts. It\u2019s a type of na\u00efve self-portrait which, according to the author, took him more time to write than his other successful novels. The book I\u2019m reading right now is only 200 pages long, but I wish it were over 2,000 because I love the story and the quality of the writing. The title is \u201cL\u00e0 o\u00f9 je me terre\u201d (\u201cAs the Andes Disappeared\u201d in English) by Caroline Dawson, who recently passed away. I highly recommend the book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cList three things you\u2019d bring to a desert island.\u201d
\u2014 \u201cYou can\u2019t guess? I\u2019d bring paper, ink and a good fountain pen. Every day I\u2019d talk to the birds, I\u2019d live off smelts, wild strawberries and sublime inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cDo you prefer the city or the country?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cWithout question, I prefer my beautiful Laurentians and the village where I reside. It has all the amenities to make me happy! I love to drive in the summertime and I often take the road from my town to Mont-Laurier. My eyes take in the beauty of the landscape at every turn, and this summer, I\u2019m particularly proud of myself. In fact, all the wild lupines I transplanted in front of my house last year have bloomed into a lovely cluster. I love nature\u2019s summer green and winter white. I have my head in the clouds in the country and a small pied-\u00e0-terre in Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWhat's your favourite season?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cI don\u2019t really have one. Every morning that I can still open my eyes, get out of bed, wash up, get dressed and go for a walk is a celebration! I live in a big house filled with books. I write every day to keep my mind active. The present moment is therefore my favourite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWhat part of the writing process do you find the hardest?\u201d
\u2014 Writing is a huge pleasure for me and really, it\u2019s not difficult. I enjoy each step of the process. Napping on the couch hoping for a good idea. Reading an interesting magazine and cutting out a paragraph that teaches me something new. Listening to my friends talk and getting a glimpse of a story that inspires me. My mind is filled with words that dance, swirl and slide gently between my lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cora
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Dear readers, do you remember the journalist who has interviewed me on a few occasions? Well, the young woman approached me with new questions yesterday. Will I play along? I glance at her email; she begins with the query\u2026 \u2014 \u201cWhy did you keep your husband\u2019s last name after divorcing him?\u201d\u2014 \u201cAfter escaping from our home, I left my kids with my parents to quickly find work. It was December 1980, and I took a job as a hostess in a popular restaurant in the Greater Montreal area. In less than a year, I had moved up to become the daytime manager and then the general manager 5 months later. I worked there for 6\u00bd years until I landed in bed from a serious burnout. One day, after recovering, I was driving my eldest son to work when I saw a \u201cRESTAURANT FOR SALE\u201d sign in a window. The small location became a Chez Cora restaurant, and I became Madame Cora. Do you think I had time back then to start the application to change my surname? DEFINITELY NOT! Legally I wasn\u2019t obligated to take my maiden name again. I simply preferred to save my money rather than go through all the paperwork required to rid me of his last name. Nobody knows his first name, so it\u2019s fine.\u201d \u2014 \u201cYou often talk about your marriage as your biggest regret. However, you seem like an optimist who knows how to get herself out of a bad situation. You got married because you were pregnant with your first child. Tell us about the 3 greatest things your marriage brought you.\u201d\u2014 \u201cHaving studied Greek civilization at college as a young girl, I knew many Ancient Greek words, so I quickly grasped the modern version. It was a rare wedding gift that I\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":48226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"La journaliste revient avec un nouveau questionnaire, et Mme Cora fait encore quelques r\u00e9v\u00e9lations sur sa vie et son parcours.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"class_list":["post-48225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lettre-mme-cora"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48225"}],"curies":[{"name":"WP","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}