What I Wore: Self-scrutiny in Paris

Over at Retail Recovery,yesterday’s post asks what fashion tyrannies rule in our individual worlds, prompting me to write finally about something that I’ve been thinking about ever since the day I wore this in Paris:…

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wandering in the Jardins du Luxembourg

As David Downie puts it in his Paris, Paris, Journey into the City of Light, the Luxembourg Gardens are, “in their own way. . . a perfect world: sixty acres of terraced woods and walks,…

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Paris: Art in the Fontaine (de Medicis)

I’ve shown you a photo of “Art-ful Waters of the Jardins du Luxembourg” once before, a shot taken May 2005. In 2006, I took this next shot, perhaps my all-time favourite Paris photo (favourite of…

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Manifestations of/in Paris

Funny, I have so much to detail about our trip, so many pictures I want to show you, meals I want to describe, anecdotes I want to relate, that I’m rather paralysed deciding where to…

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Congrats to Rawi Hage — Canadian winner of the IMPAC

I’m so pleased to read that Rawi Hage was awardedthe IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (which The Globe and Mail calls ‘the world’s most lucrative literary prize for a single work of English fiction.’ I read…

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