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I really must leave Paris and move ahead with my life. The thing is…I’ve been, off and on, obsessing about our last evening there and, while I’ve covered that week’s happenings in some detail, apparently, I do not want it to end. But all good things…and all that…. Let me plunge right back into that dark and rainy evening. September 27th it was. Teresa and I had tickets for DANCE ME –… Read More
Here’s the opportunity for you just to meander about the city with us. In the sun and rain, early or late, happy or … happy. Yes, Paris has a whole lot of ordinary suburbs like all urban areas…but, you know, in the center of Parisian history, where we visitors hang out, it is so not ordinary. It is beautiful, and like no other city…and I have been to most of the world’s… Read More
I am about to share the last stop on my September journey. Paris. It had been awhile. At least fifteen years? How could that be? My favorite city for so many years. I was Paris enamored, enchanted, enthralled…yeah, all that. And yet in my travels in the 2000s, I only returned a few times, and they were early on. Why? Perhaps, afraid to have the memory diminished, the magic tarnished by the… Read More
(This set of posts comprise an addendum for Time and Place 2015-16, accounting for previous travels and events.) My grandchildren have already guessed that grandma is not leaving them a huge fortune or even a tiny fortune, just a lot of books, the 100 year old couch and travel memories. ‘Oh well,’ they say, ‘a fortune would have come in handy but we love you anyway Gma.’ At least I’m remembering that’s what… Read More
“Je suis Charlie.” I am angry today. Because a bunch of irreverent journalists were murdered, because the attacks on the Jewish people never never end, because France as a bastion of secularism is under attack, because we’re all under attack—aided by yet one more book written by a bunch of men in the distant past telling women what to do and what to wear. The images of Islam coming out of Paris… Read More
I wrote this a month ago on my birthday. Have been trying to fix it ever since. I give up. Here it is. My first attempt to deal with all of those long-ago notes. Today’s my birthday. I’ve daringly posted my real age on facebook so we don’t have to go into that here. How this relates to travel since this is a travel blog? The new passport that would allow me… Read More