I’d love to do better than scrawl a hasty postcard to you, but we’ve been busy and, after all, the priority for now is spending time with “the kids” — daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter. We…
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We’re back in Paris, elated to be here again. And also exhausted, épuisés, by the reality of travel. Grateful but honestly, as the adrenaline leaves our systems, a bit flat. . . The restorative solution? Getting outside, moving, observing, filling all the senses. . . . The simple pleasures of slow travel, in fact.
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Busy with preparations for my upcoming trip to Europe — among those preparations an important consideration being “what books to download for plane and train reading? — I’m finally posting my September Reading. Some fine memoirs for you, two tense mysteries, one tough but important work of documentary fiction, and two literary novels with domestic or family themes.
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As eager as I am to be in Paris and Rome again (especially to see and hug the overseas family members) there’s still much to enjoy right here, in the neighbourhood. For example, I could…
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As we prepare to travel again, I’ve begun to organize my box of travel journals. More than twenty little books, in a few different formats, record impressions of my travels since 2008. Before that, for…
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