Celebrating all things Paris this months for Tamara's blog event Paris in July , I thought someone should mention that it's Bastil...

The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards have just been announced this week. I've been looking at these images, and I'm especially impres...

From my attic bookshelves… Jean Rhys (1890-1979) wrote about life in 1920s Paris in a rather dismal way in two of her novels: Quartet and A...

Yellow things in the park: a goldfinch near the railroad tracks. A yellow lane marker for little boats. A yellow skull at practice. A yellow...

After one of our long stays in Paris, I wrote down many of my memories of what we had experienced. The following is my memory of a French in...

A very important issue: food! At the start of the pandemic it became clear that our systems of food production, processing, distribution, an...

At the center of Zola's book  La Curée (The Kill)  is a not-very-devoted couple living in a very elegant private mansion adjacent to the...

  In New England, we were told, the 4th of July menu includes salmon and peas. This makes sense if you think about the season: when there we...

Inspector Erlendur of the Reykjavík police department is a serious and somewhat humorless man. He's divorced, his children have grown up...

 

The lead vehicle in the parade was a police car, followed by dozens of bikes, and ending with two firetrucks. Gathering in the park. Straggl...