Muguet, neuroscience, art and old books have nothing in common, except our neurons are essential to taking them in for sure! Politics perhaps less, lol. May Day or International Labour Day is Muguet Day(Lily of the valley) everywhere in France. Every corner and every few feet were vendors selling these tiny white bell looking flowers …
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Election day Sunday being mostly sunny, I decided to take my grief brained body out for another walk around Ile de la Cité, an island in the Seine. After all, it was those hallowed grounds that gave birth to Paris, the most beautiful city in the world. Last thursday, I walked all around Ile Saint …
Paris is not just for lovers, but surprisingly Paris is for the heartbroken and grief stricken too. I don’t have any illusions that the city’s tourist bureau wants to take up my title, nor adopt me as a veritable poster child to spin Paris as a haven to come to forget your woes, sooth your …
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This massive rectangle of red and blue tubes, steel pipes and marine looking white air vents of the Pompidou Center now occupies a very privileged spot in Paris. I have gotten use to it , though it still looks totally out of place and reminds me of a little boy’s tinker toy and erector set …
January has had the most bone chilling bitter cold that I can remember since living in Paris. With a knee injury, I have not been sailing around this gorgeous city like I am use to. Having already missed an important march Saturday, I was determined to get up to Montmartre for the scallop festival and …
Sainte Geneviève is revered here in Paris and with good reason! She single-handedly saved Paris from invasion, destruction, sickness and famine through her courage, her peaceful leadership, her diplomacy, and her faith. For all that she did for the city of Paris to survive, she certainly merits having that title! I first discovered …
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You can see all sorts of crazy things in Paris. Mostly it is bizarre looking humans , not sheep grazing in front of our beautiful Parisian monuments or landscapes. One reason makes perfect sense to me, the other is a superb example of how the French call attention to their many grievances . I have …
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My first passion is being a therapist, which has always brought me much fulfillment and joy in helping others, but my other passion is gastronomy and cooking! To those of you who know me or my regular readers, this is no surprise, given the culinary and wine posts sprinkled throughout. There is a sort of …
It was one of those weekends, where there was too much I wanted to do, so it came down to pick and choose. Boudin on a barge, ski jumping, photo exhibit and a flea market. A blessing to me to be pulled out by all these events, who with shorter daylight and rainy cold weather …
I was intrigued enough by the Louvre’s proposed Aphrodite’s Love trail to follow the Goddess of Love, rather than my usual meandering around. I would have loved to have taken you along,(yes, you who is reading this.) Beauty should always be shared and besides I would have been interested in your thoughts too. I never …
I was determined to approach this task with a uncritical and open mind; precisely learning to appreciate contemporary art, which has held little interest in the past. It was at the Le Petit Palais, which I love to visit anytime and it was free. It just happened to be one of those rare perfect autumn days …
Eugene Delacroix was described by his friend Charles Baudelaire as “a volcanic crater artfully concealed behind bouquets of flowers”. He remains in many ways an enigma, where his personality and inner life can be drawn from his art, his tragic childhood losses, and conjectured by reading the correspondence to various persons during his lifetime. This …