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
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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
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
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
I have lived long enough in the United States to know for a fact that Americanness is a many-faceted thing. Along with inspiring facets, disturbing […] Read More
Today we are celebrating India’s Independence Day. Appa‘s country was freed from British rule on August 15, 1947 at midnight. I always find it striking […] Read More
So much is happening and shifting in the United States right now that merely keeping up seems like a full-time job. Like countless others I […] Read More