I remember my first trip abroad in the summer of 1984, between my junior and senior year of college. I…
Change of plans, or here we go again!
We change our minds. A lot. I don’t know if you’ve noticed. But what are plans other than a reasonably…
In which we finally go the the Loire Valley
I think I’ve mentioned how much I hate chateaux. All that pompous decoration and power-play architecture. So what the hell…
What to do, what to do? (or, decision time)
I’ve recently had a couple of conversations with friends of friends who were directed to this blog because they’re gearing…
What a long, strange trip it’s been
Here we are, back in the land of the “free”. How surreal it seems. We’ve been in the US for…
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Where we are not moving: La Rochelle
Let me back up a moment and say oh hey, we’re moving ! The situation in Paris with our noisy…
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Optimism and the Covid narrative
I’ve been thinking about the state of the Covid narrative. Not the broader social and economic story, that will be…
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Out of the frying pan and into the lap of luxury
I feel like the future is simultaneously wide open and closed down. I’m not talking globally, though that’s certainly the…
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A quest for confinement number 3: the baguette
What is left when everything has gone south? The pleasures of Paris are closed up once again, in compliance with…
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Avignon again
For as much as I love thinking of myself quasi-nomadic, I sure like to talk to myself about someday settling…
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The Let's Get Lost Game 