Paris, 2013

There are three major events associated with La Fête National (National Day to them, Bastille Day to us): Firemen's Ball, The Parade, and The Fireworks.  I managed two out of…

Today, on a lark, we pretty well bracketed Paris from top to bottom, at least when viewed on a normal North-at-the-top map. We started at the largest flea market in…

Today I bought books.  Two, to be exact.  But it wasn't so much about the books as it was about the booksellers. Shakespeare and Company was a bookstore opened in…

Soldes That's your French word for the day.  It's a shopper's favorite word, and in July and January, it may well be the most commonly seen word in the French…

Suppose you were an artist.  I mean a good old-fashioned artist who puts brush to canvas and produces an image that starts in his/her mind and an approximation of it…

Rats.  No, not sewer rats like some of you were expecting.  More like Charlie Brown's favorite interjection: "Rats! The sewer museum is closed today."  I'll fit it in later for…

Have you noticed our days often have themes or common threads?  No matter what I tried today, I couldn't make it happen.  This is what happens when you start scrambling…

Le Tour For 364 days of the year, the words Le Tour in French can mean either "The Tower", as in Le Tour Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower, or "The Tour",…

I know this will be hard for our Albuquerque friends to grasp, considering that the day before we left home the city was suffering a heat wave with highs in…

I told you yesterday it was hot.  We started today quietly, reading in our apartment until lunchtime (which for us was about 2:00 today), then moved outside where it was…