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…]
Girl Most Likely To
August 18, 2015 by
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.”
From Paris, With Love
April 6, 2015 by
Chère Maman,
Je vais essayer d’écrire en français parce que — comme j’espère que tu sais — je suis à l’école à Paris pour améliorer mon français. [Read more…]
Solving the Rubik’s Poem
March 31, 2015 by
I am a very occasional poet. The urge, the wisp of an idea for a poem, wafts by once every three years and it’s hit or miss whether I bother to write it down. [Read more…]
Art, Hammered
March 27, 2015 by
Several weeks ago I went to a photography exhibit consisting solely of photographs of hammers. [Read more…]