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18 Months Later...... 7 Jan 2013 | 01:42 am
The United flight from Washington, DC to Paris arrives at 6:30 in the morning, a time at which, in late December, Paris skies are still pitch black and the only cafe customers are men taking their lit...
Au Revoir 2 Jul 2011 | 06:04 pm
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 I'm sad t...
Of Rats and Men 1 Jul 2011 | 06:03 pm
We're coming down to the wire here and I realize that there's not time to write about my visit to the royal palace at Compiegne, Anish Kapoor's Leviathan installation at the Grand Palais which I visit...
What My Husband Will Miss about Paris 30 Jun 2011 | 05:58 pm
For one thing, the view right outside the front door of his office building. There's nothing quite like that in Arlington, Virginia.
Ten Things My Kids Say They Will Miss About Paris 29 Jun 2011 | 06:06 pm
I've asked my kids many times to reflect on their experiences and it's a little bit like pulling teeth. And now that school is out, while they're happy to read for pleasure, writing is not high on the...
Ten Days in Turkey 28 Jun 2011 | 06:04 pm
If you've been wondering why I've been on radio silence with respect to your comments recently, it's only because we spent the past 10 days in Turkey, a kind of last hurrah for our international adven...
Street Art Redux 27 Jun 2011 | 05:46 pm
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 during my ...
Hidden in Plain Sight 26 Jun 2011 | 06:03 pm
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 locked gates. Short...
Ten Things I Won't Miss About Paris 25 Jun 2011 | 05:55 pm
You've heard it all before but I'm 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 trick of a...
Remembrance of Things Paris 24 Jun 2011 | 05:58 pm
There's an image of Ruth Reichl's Remembrance of Things Paris over in the sidebar of this page marked "What I'm Reading" But that's a lie. I'm not reading anything now. Maybe it's the craziness of ...
