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Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. By the time many of you see this video, we will be on a plane, winging our way back across the Atlantic to our home in Washington, DC. While Im s...
Were coming down to the wire here and I realize that theres not time to write about my visit to the royal palace at Compiegne, Anish Kapoors Leviathan installation at the Grand Palais which I vi...
For one thing, the view right outside the front door of his office building. Theres nothing quite like that in Arlington, Virginia.
Ive asked my kids many times to reflect on their experiences and its a little bit like pulling teeth. And now that school is out, while theyre happy to read for pleasure, writing is not high on their...
If youve been wondering why Ive been on radio silence with respect to your comments recently, its only because we spent the past 10 days in Turkey, a kind of last hurrah for our international adventu...
You could do an entire blog on street art in Paris (for all I know someone has) and once you start looking for it, it seems to be everywhere. Here are a few favorites that popped out at me duri...
Paris can be kind of coy. Her people take a while to warm up to you (or at least to understand your pathetic attempts at speaking French) and lovely spots are often hidden behind lock...
Youve heard it all before but Im saying it again, more than anything to remind myself that life in Paris, like life anyplace else, has its unpleasant and annoying moments. And even the tr...
Theres an image of Ruth Reichls Remembrance of Things Paris over in the sidebar of this page marked "What Im Reading" But thats a lie. Im not reading anything now. Mayb...
Because its impossible to have too many pictures of the Eiffel Tower, right? In any season, under any metereological conditions, at any time of day, from any angle or distance. ...
Thought Id finally post a photo of myself? Well kind of. I loved this bit of street art I happened upon while prowling around the streets of the 19th and 20th arrondisse...
When I hear horns honking on my block, it usually means that someone has parked in front of a building entrance, blocking the residents from either entering or exiting. One morning last week, t...
The French adventure in Mexico during the 19th century pretty much ended in disaster. Perhaps it was inevitable given the clash in palates. This latest product by Old El Paso, which domin...
My patience with this number series is wearing thin. But while Im too bored to count all the way to 100 (and you do have to give me credit for getting halfway there), I have a few numbers from ...
My heart is being tugged in three ways at once these days. A lot is already behind me: people whom Ive seen for the last time; metro rides I wont make again; tears held back or wipe...
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Commune, a government that held power in Paris from March to May 1871. Its a period of history that no one much likes to talk about, perhaps because...
Although Ive given up on the idea of walking all the streets of Paris (or even all the streets on my Streetwise Paris map) before we part, that hasnt kept me from carrying the map with me and hi...
This map of Europe, a gift from my sister, hung on the wall of our apartment almost from the moment we moved in and very quickly became a living document of our travels. It was virtually imposs...
After two passes through the town of Auvers sur Oise with my hiking group which offered little time to soak up the history of Vincent Van Goghs final days there, I finally made the time to go back in...
After all the sunny weather we had in April and May, its not so easy to go back to the typical Parisian weather -- cool and gray being the order of the day, pretty much any time of year. But af...
The forties. Special numbers to me because these are the years I passed in Paris. Back next Sunday with the fifties (which I hear are the new thirties.)
Technical incidents, strikes, sick passengers can all create havoc with the morning commute. But an animal on the track? Let your imagination run wild with this one.
Okay, I said I wouldnt make this blog into a constant drone about our upcoming departure. But after spending three days inside this week while the movers did their thing, its very much on my mi...
Métronome was on the French best seller list for months before it came to my attention. Actually I dont pay any attention to whats hot in the French press because most of it is way beyond ...
Were at that point in the move where the worst is both behind and in front of us and the present isnt really all that bad. Because yesterday, the trying part of the whole ordeal was having...
The movers arrive today and leave Thursday: two days to pack and wrap, and one day to lower everything out the window onto a truck. Seven hundred pounds will go by plane; the rest by sea. ...
Im a little behind on reporting on some of my day trips from Paris. The bare trees in this photo are a dead giveaway that I took this picture back in March and here it is already June. Bu...
Et donc, on continue: What do you think? Do you have the stomach for more?
I dont suppose theyd appreciate it if I offered my services. Perhaps I should have just brought my own White-Out and Sharpie.
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