Every once in a while I head out on a Sunday to one of the oldest markets in Paris, Le Marché aux Oiseaux, that come rain or shine, takes place on Sundays on Ile de La Cité, next to the oldest hospital of Paris called Hopital Dieu, which by the way is a monumental historical building …
Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s most talented and prodigious writers, who despite his immense fame, fought many demons in his life. Recognition for his writing though never seemed to completely satisfy his ego, as an emptiness within compelled him toward wild feats of thrill seeking as if to prove something he held in doubt …
I have written before about the seriousness Parisians maintain about their beloved baguette. The city of Paris puts on a contest each year to find the best baguette each year. Contests such as these may uncover some of the city’s talented bakers, who in the past were not known. It can not be described as …
I was away all last week on the Cote d’Azur in desperate pursuit of the sun. When you live in Paris, sun chasing comes from an essential thirsting for that bright golden globe that likes to tease the city now and then, like an elusive lover. When I think of getting away, I generally …
Even if you have totally forgotten what day it is, you are quickly reminded by pretty little bouquets of lily of the valley flowers. They are for sale on every corner and every few feet all over Paris. It is the first of May! Tradition has it that King Charles IX in 1561 initiated the …
This Louisiana girl has never lived in any other large city, except Paris, so perhaps this phenomena is universal. We have had a delayed spring, with many cool gray days, and mostly rainy, except a few days last week. All it takes is one warm day, and the population of Paris seems to literally explode …
One of the things I have always found intriguing and enjoyable, living in Paris, is to be able to walk on the same paths as those renown ones did from the past. I had known about Marie Curie, but had not realized she came to France as a young Polish student to live and even …
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I have always believed that our soul and the cells in our heart carry painful memories that we would just as well avoid dealing with in our daily conscious. That includes anniversary of the deaths of those we loved with all our heart. I noticed that this past week I have felt more depressed, with …
Sunday was just one of those glorious days of spring that appeared suddenly out of nowhere, like a wildflower. Warm and sunny, whereas the days before were cold and drizzly, enough for coats! As soon as I heard that it was going to be warm, my thoughts raced towards driving out of the city to …
Last Sunday was free museum day and as usual I head to whatever enclave of beauty and art that calls to me. Most often like a homing pigeon, I find myself back at the Louvre, because the whole place is so immensely complex and full of nooks and crannies, that you can go …
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the gift of forgiveness and the freedom and lightness we feel from letting go of anger and revenge towards others. Today I would like to focus on something a lot of patients have an equally hard doing, and that is being able to forgive themselves. Actually I …
Morgan Triplette is a 20 year old student at the University of California Santa Cruz who filed a false rape claim that left her campus in fear and cost the county more than $20,000 in investigative charges. In reading about her I was struck by her immense psychological pathology. As I have said before stories …
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