Planning Visits to Art Exhibitions in Paris, e.g. Vigée Le Brun at Grand Palais

Lovely as serendipity can be (I’ve also written about Serendipity in travel-planning here), we don’t rely completely on its charms when we travel. Generally, I scope out can’t-miss exhibitions or concerts before we fly; sometimes,…

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Travel and Independence and Getting On, Part 2…

I’m beginning this second post about Travel and Independence very aware of how much ground I have to cover. The conversation that’s already emerging in the wake of my first post on the topicsuggests so…

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Travel and independence and Getting On….Part 1

That screenshot, above, of the GoogleMap directions my sister and I followed this past May from our hotel on the Île St. Louis to Père Lachaise Cemetery is, itself, something of a guide to where…

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Work, Family, Life at 60+

Not only am I generally an early riser, but I’m an early riser whose home office has been expropriated by a visiting granddaughter who needed her own bed. And an early riser struggling to keep…

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Comfortable, Visible . . . It’s a Style. . . Mine . . .

Susan, at Une Femme, has written a great post about finding Comfort in Style. . . or would that be vice versa. and Lisa, atAmidPrivilege complements that post with her look at (In)Visibility at a Certain…

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