When the shaking started, I was deep, deep down—cocooned in a dream that was yanked away from me when terror plunged its greedy hand into my sleep and hauled me spluttering towards the surface. [Read more…]
Times I’ve Almost Died
February 5, 2016 by
What She Does Next Is Shocking
September 17, 2015 by
Years ago Dad bought a 1986 right-hand drive Land Rover Defender, named her Matilda, and sawed her in half. [Read more…]
Girl Most Likely To
August 18, 2015 by
Let me be the first to tell you I’ve forgotten
what it was I wanted to say.
The words I’d been saving squandered elsewhere. [Read more…]
All The Last Things
June 21, 2015 by
Your last week in Paris, you will do all the last things, big and small. You will tidy your apartment one final time. You will buy cheese at the Marché Raspail along with vegetables that can’t be cooked in a hotel room. [Read more…]
#MadameThePussyRunsParis
June 9, 2015 by
I must have been the only one incensed by the topless photos in the Glamour magazine included in my Nike Women’s #WeRunParis race-pack because I didn’t get any retweets when I snarked about it on Twitter. [Read more…]
Woman and Dog
June 3, 2015 by
It remains true that you can be in Paris, surrounded by grace and beauty, and still catch yourself wondering about heartworm season. [Read more…]
A Metaphorical Selfie
May 12, 2015 by
Bronze Statue Selfie, 1868, Jardin du Luxembourg
Behold the ubiquitous, slim telescopes wavering over a thousand frozen smiles like so many anxious antennae: the selfie-sticks of Paris. [Read more…]
The Three Minute Cry
April 19, 2015 by
A friend of a friend in Paris adores ballet, which it turns out has perks. [Read more…]
Le Trail des Reculées, Clueless
April 15, 2015 by
“It doesn’t really matter where we go, we can just pick a trail, buy a map, and do whatever we want.”