From Paris to Haiku

Because I’m detouring briefly away from Paris talk today, I’ll offer you a conciliatory Paris photo. Here, Pater stands in front of a clever example of street art in the La Bièvre section, in the…

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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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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day — June Blooms

I wasn’t sure I’d be able to pull off a Bloom Day post this time ’round, having just got home from Europe on Thursday, but the sunshine beckoned this morning, and I really like the…

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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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More Paris Windows

I love Tara’s Paris window photographs, a regular feature over at ParisParfait. I had looked forward to meeting her in Paris, but it turned out that she was travelling west almost exactly the same time…

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