when you can make your own? Spotted outside the Tuileries Gardens, this catwalk offers the alternative to Paris Fashion Week, starting on the Concorde Metro steps and sashaying all around Place de la Concorde.
#1 escalator ride in the world
I have to admit, often times, modern art is lost on me. I love the creative spirits of others and the crazy, wondrous things their minds make up, but more than usually, my reactions at modern art museums are a befuddled…
october favorite
I’ve long since declared October to be my favorite month. Something about the roundness of the O, something about its profound position as fully in fall but still far enough from winter, something about rich, warm colors melding in my…
call it a victory
My parents are proponets of dreams- for myself, my brother and Sarah, and many others. This year, we got to watch them live a dream of their own. 364 days ago, they stepped (should I say jumped? dove headfirst? cartwheeled?)…
indian summer twilight
I know I’ve gone on and one the last two weeks about fall in Paris, but we’ve been dosed an Indian Summer this week with weather in the 70s and 80s every day. And I can practically hear the city…
Paris Street Life: Taking Care of Business
Men in Paris have a reputation for taking their business to the streets. Literally. I love a story my friend tells about a father instructing his son to pee on the side of the Opera Garnier…while she was standing…right there. The…