We’ve been nowhere but home lately, with very few exceptions. This feels strange for someone whose life’s aim is going…
Like riding a bicycle, or getting back on the horse
It has been a long and tortuous road getting French driver’s licenses. In an absolutely unfair twist of fate, I…
Sète, or putting the risk back in travel
I’ve sat down to write a couple of times lately, but what is there to say? Nearly the only thing…
We’ll always have Paris*
So here we are back in Paris, thoroughly bewildered, 7 months after departing on a long vacation and over 4…
Spiritual Puns
I love a good coincidence story. Who doesn’t? It makes you feel like there’s some overarching sense or theme to…
Hidden Montpellier
I wasn’t going to write for a while because it seems like anything I could say would be frivolous during…
Let’s go to Metz! Or, we’re all armchair travelers now lo
I think we all need a break from The Thing That Broke the World.* Join me, won’t you? Stick your…
Learning to settle
Early in our winter travels I said to Mark that I realized that we had everything with us that we…
Predictions and the present moment
I’ve been occupying my days these days with an online class on the history of divination* and meditating. I couldn’t…
The town that would not let go
Our winter travels have had an unforeseen bookend: Montpellier. We’ve always liked this town as I’ve mentioned many times; it’s…