It’s 6 AM and I’ve been awake for two hours, huddled under the covers to mute the light from my phone as I flick through the news, Instagram and email. I play a round or two of sudoku to exercise… Read More ›
the world in between
Lessons from Jack
February 5th began as a normal Tuesday in Paris. Friends were in town. We ate lunch at our favorite restaurant. The sun shone. It was pure pleasure. That evening, I received a flurry of texts. A phone call. In an… 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 ›
So You Want to Move to Paris….
Last week, I noticed a spike in my blog statistics. I can’t tell who looked at my blog, but I could see that several were from the Fodor’s travel forum. For those of you unfamiliar with this forum, it’s a… Read More ›
Our Ski Vacation to Austria
It was my idea of a perfect ski vacation. Brilliant sunshine. Warm. No snow. No worries! The intuitive choice was to fly into Vienna since we were skiing in Austria, but I choose Venice. Like many, I sometimes confuse the… Read More ›
The World In Between 