Materfamilias Writes

Playing Hooky as Christmas Approaches . . .

Playing Hooky as Christmas Approaches . . .

Another passage from Karl Olve Knausgaard’s A Man in Love (the 2nd volume of his My Struggle series) illustrates some of that gradual fading we observe of the intensity of a time away from home, the remembered…

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Planning Visits to Art Exhibitions in Paris, e.g. Vigée Le Brun at Grand Palais

Planning Visits to Art Exhibitions in Paris, e.g. Vigée Le Brun at Grand Palais

Lovely as serendipity can be (I’ve also written about Serendipity in travel-planning here), we don’t rely completely on its charms when we travel. Generally, I scope out can’t-miss exhibitions or concerts before we fly; sometimes,…

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Kuniyoshi in Paris

Kuniyoshi in Paris

Writing that little Paris love story the other day and then having a virtual coffee with regular reader and commenter Dottoressa on Saturday (if you haven’t yet read her guest post, I hope you’ll find…

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Let’s have Coffee– in Croatia!

Let’s have Coffee– in Croatia!

Thanks so much for your kind comments on my Paris Love Story. After the recent tragic events in that city we’ve visited so often and love so dearly, I wasn’t sure whether I could continue…

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Paris and Pater and I, one fall afternoon…

Paris and Pater and I, one fall afternoon…

If you’ve been reading here for a while, you probably know that Pater and I prefer to travel carry-on only whenever possible. Our system was challenged returning from this last trip (perhaps more on that…

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