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Summer holidays

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

It has been my favorite kind of summer this year in Paris — cool and grey and drizzly with flashes of warmth and bright sun. Even though I love it (I know, I’m weird) I’m ready for a blast of dry heat, lazy afternoons by the pool, and the juice of a nectarine trickling down [...]

Weddings

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

I’ve been thinking about weddings recently, and not just because of all the recent celebrations in New York, which I’ve loved reading about in the paper. You see, eight years ago today, on a sunny, summer afternoon in Southern California, my husband and I joined together in civil matrimony. Yep, we got ourselves hitched. It was [...]

Canine companionship

Monday, July 18th, 2011

Bonjour, mes amis! I’m so excited to welcome author Allie Larkin to chat about her debut novel, Stay. The book is about Van, a lovelorn young woman who, while drowning her sorrows with a few cocktails, accidentally buys a German shepherd puppy off the internet. Mayhem ensues, but in the end, could a dog named Joe possibly be [...]

Liberté, fraternité, rosé

Friday, July 15th, 2011

France celebrated her birthday yesterday with a military parade, picnics, fireworks and lashings of rosé wine, bien sûr. What did I see? There were armored vehicles and soldiers keeping a close eye on the 6e arrondissement… A picnic on a gorgeous, bright and breezy summer evening on the Esplanade des Invalides, organized by podcast hosts [...]

Lunch

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Lunch is the one meal of the day that’s guaranteed to make me sleepy. As a result, I try to eat very light, almost vegan, lunches of fruits, vegetables and whole grains during the week. And, I have to admit, I usually eat them in front of the computer. Bad, barbaric me. I find lunch [...]

Maine Coon cats

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Last weekend we were in London where we visited some friends for dinner and fell under the spell of their Maine Coon cats, the fluffiest pair of felines to ever have clawed a scratching post (not pictured here, alas — I forgot my camera). I was totally enchanted by their size and sweeping tails and [...]

Dreamy kitchens

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

After years of saving our pennies, we’re finally taking the plunge and buying an apartment in Paris, a postage stamp that we can call our very own. And now that I’ve viewed many (many, many) apartments, I can say with some confidence that whatever and wherever we end up buying, we’ll need to do some [...]

Summer reading

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Now that summer is officially here (though you’d never guess it from the rainy weather), I’m dreaming about vacation. Whole days of uninterrupted sloth reading by the pool. Which begs the question: Reading what? Last week I asked for your summer book suggestions. I got so many excellent ideas, I thought I’d share some of [...]

Unleashed

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Paris gets a bad rap for dog mess, and it’s true that some streets are worse than others. In my neighborhood, I’ve learned to watch my feet on rue Dupin and rue Coëtlogon, which, after several unfortunate incidents, we now call rue de la Merde. I thought I was the only one who noticed the [...]

Cold combinations

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

It’s ice cream season again in Paris and, if the long lines are any attestation, this stuff is to Parisians as those hideous boot-sandals are to teenage girls. There are so many wonderful ice cream shops in Paris that I’ll leave the deliberation over who’s the best to the experts. (Though I’ve listed my favorites below.) [...]

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