I think it has been about a year since I last wrote, and since my desire to pop back in and say hi has been steady for a while, I thought today would be a good day to take the plunge. I have just spent the morning in Paris taking pictures and short video clips for a book promotion, and… Read More
I finally have a quiet day to write. School is in session for the second week, but it’s only now that I’ve been able to be free from all the flurry of activity and appointments it entails. I intended to write this summer. I made a quetsch tart – quetsch being a variety of plums that are small and long… Read More
In my early blogging days, I would have done a separate post for each one of these places to visit in Dordogne, including my most recent post on The Village of Martyrs, and it all would have been accomplished in two weeks. Now that I earn my living writing novels, and only post here once every two weeks, I find… Read More
On June 10, 1944, just four days after D-Day, the Nazis exterminated the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, killing 642 people, of which 246 were women, 207 were children, and 6 were infants. They then torched the village. They assembled the people in the square and separated men from women. The men, they put in groups in the barn, shot off their… Read More
I avoided accents in the title because it tends to mess up the link, but the museum name should be Musée Jacquemart-André. It’s located on a quiet leafy Parisian street at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement, within walking distance of the Champs-Elysées. I went last May when there was a Mary Cassatt exhibit, which was absolutely enchanting. Do you… Read More
If you’re here for the INSIDR smartphone giveaway, just scroll down to about two-thirds of the way where I list the details of the contest. If you plan to come to France before April, 2019 then this giveaway will make your stay in the City of Light that much brighter. I can’t wait to see who wins! If you’re one… Read More
