Summer Yellow: A Paris Purchase Meets the Home Wardrobe. . .

Yellow’s never been a colour I could wear, but I loved this print — on cotton lawn, gossamer-light, perfect for summer heat — in a little shop in St. Germain, Paris. And whether it’s the…

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Random Reading: Plant Life and Paris Romance

I’m going to post these excerpts from “my other blog” here because they’re about books and I think I’d like to keep that material together here rather than just including a link. Hope you don’t…

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Saturday Seven . . . Delivering Happiness and Books and Film . . .

Feeling a bit scattered right now. A few too many ambitions and projects and commitments, and I haven’t quite figured how to get my head above it all long enough to achieve some coherence. But…

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Paris Shopping: Des Belles Addresses

We’re packing up this evening, and by this time tomorrow I’ll be cuddling a Five and a Three that I haven’t seen since they surprised me for that Really Big Birthday! Not much time to…

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Another Paris Postcard: Bad News/Good News

So, let’s start with the bad news, and get that out of the way. . . Yes, against our faint hopes, our train tomorrow has been cancelled due to the SNCF work action. Luckily, we’d…

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