Postcard from Paris

We’re happily settled in our familiar hotel in Paris (such a warm welcome — the front desk clerk came out to give me a big hug! — made us up a tisane and then asked…

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April Showers in Portland or Paris or Wherever You Want to Imagine Them . . .

 The Granddad (Pater) and I are doing some significant waiting today. Can’t tell you more for the moment,  but I can share these photos I took in Portland last month (so yes, technically these were…

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Table for One — a Solo Travel post

As lovely as it is, when travelling with a friend or a romantic partner, to be able to share pleasure in new sights, sounds . . . and tastes! . . . as lovely as…

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Five Things Friday — Paris Art

Five Things Friday — Paris Art   1. At the same exposition I referred to here, Women House, at Monnaie de Paris, a brilliant, sensuous sculpture by (as if you needed me to tell you!)…

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Monday Morning, Back at Home, Remembering Paris. . .

Good morning! Just quickly, let me share a few more photos of Joana Vasconcelos’ outsized, wrought-iron teapot, part of the Women House exhibition I saw in Paris last Thursday, at the Monnaie de Paris. I’m busy…

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