We finally made it to Paris this morning. It’s been so long…
I am reading Dignity by Chris Arnade, a non-fiction book about the people who live in back row America. Poor, stigmatized neighborhoods in large cities. […] Read More
Last week was the first time I traveled to New York in nearly a year and a half, due to the pandemic. The main purpose […] Read More
A guessing game I think I have become increasingly good at, having run my online French grocery store Simply Gourmand for over a decade now, […] Read More
When I was ten my grandmother handwrote a chapter book for me. It was about her family, her childhood memories, and what life was like […] Read More
It happened to me fairly often when I lived in New York. I would spot two or more people from a distance, walking on a […] Read More
Appa came up with the idea last spring, as he realized our vacation plans were going astray and we would not get together with our […] Read More
It happened yesterday morning. I was on my way to meeting Appa and Minette to pick a Christmas tree in that parking lot near St […] Read More
As France is entering its second coronavirus lockdown, along with several other European countries, there are even more reasons for my country to sink in […] Read More
Sometime at the very end of the 20th century I moved from Geneva, Switzerland to Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was my first leap into the “far […] Read More