Friday afternoon I visited Shakespeare & Company. You might remember how much I enjoyed a certain bookstore in Denver last summer. Well, I discovered that Shakes & Co. was that times a hundred. If you love books and have time…
April in Paris
I don’t know if it’s the new season or that fact that the we have extra hours of sun, but Paris just feels different; it feels good and people seem happier. You know what they say about springtime in Paris…well, it feels kind of like…
st. sulpice
I first visited St. Sulpice on a frigid, windy day this January. I went because of the way Nichole, from Little Brown Pen, had captured its chairs. Though plain and ordinary, there was something truly striking about them – I…
chambre de whaaaat?
10 facts of life for me and my petit appartement: 1. Let’s get this straight: I live in something called a “chambre de bonne” which is a clever French euphemism for former maid quarters. I even have a separate stairwell…
hope for ‘only hope’
I blame Mandy Moore. Her breathy rendition of “Only Hope”in the sickly sweet movie “A Walk to Remember” ruined any hope I might have had of liking this Switchfoot song…that is until yesterday. As a woman sang the song in church, God gently poked through my…
playing the game
I’ve actually never had an x ray taken outside of the dentist’s office, so I have nothing to compare this to…however, the experience of being half-clothed and hugging an x-ray machine for my carte de sejour medical visit strikes me…