As I ran across the Place Vendome on my way to a Dreyfus Affair tour, I caught a glimpse of myself reflected in a window: Flannel shirt, untucked. Gray jeans. Black sneakers. Grimace. (Or laugh. Or eye roll. I forget…. Read More ›
Expat life
Should We Stay or Should We Go?
We’ve kicked the can down the road long enough. Next year is coming. We need to decide what we’re going to do. More specifically, where we’re going to live. To a degree, this came to a head in Saint Malo… Read More ›
La Rentrée… Home to Paris
My French teacher was explaining the various verbs that translate as ‘to return.’ She told us that retourner constitutes a return to any place: school, the library, a country. But rentrer is reserved for that special place. She placed her… Read More ›
Paris, Movies, Popcorn and Growing Older
In the Unites States, Pat and I rarely went to the movies, but now, it’s an indulgence. To bask in English. To understand every word, grasp the nuance, and laugh at the jokes. Otherwise, going to the movies is a thinly… Read More ›
A Return to Aix en Provence, France
Aix en Provence and I go back more than twenty years to a time when I was living in North Carolina, raising three kids, and working with a team in La Gaude, France. The first trip I made to the… Read More ›
The World In Between 