When a blogging friend comes to Paris – whom you’ve known for over two years online (and with whom you’ve already had two aborted attempts to meet up in the past, except that you couldn’t manage to extricate yourself from the daily grind) – you get over your hermit tendencies, and you GO INTO PARIS! You go to the Champs Elysées,… Read More
This trivial post was inspired by a rainy Sunday afternoon, a camera in hand, the need for a blog post, and a house full of people . . . which meant I had to clean. In the kitchen, there are the new mauve baskets on my shelves. They hold all the opened bags of lentils and brown rice and dried… Read More
Why am I wearing surgical gloves to give my dog a bowl of water? Well, yesterday morning, he jumped in the bank of the Seine, and it must have been a stagnant pool (hidden by the brush) because it was unbeLIEvably smelly. So I gave him a bath. Then last night, he found a dead crow, so he rubbed his… Read More
When we picked Hunter up from his 4-hectre paradise, we discovered that he had learned a few tricks. He’s a new dog, you see, so he’s still teachable. He was just weaning off his “let’s eat poop” stage before he left, which I was relieved to see the end of, since it’s pretty darn disgusting. But when he came home,… Read More
Well … it will be good to be home as soon as we recover from the jet lag. We were all up until 2:30 last night and we all woke up at 11:30 today. Oh yeah, and William threw up all over himself and the bedding and wall because I fed them chocolate chip cookies instead of dinner. #MotherOfTheYear
Yesterday, Alexandra from the blog Good Day Regular People (my roommate at BlogHer and my friend) had to say goodbye to her mother. She first said goodbye on Monday, and in her own words, it was like this: “She gave us two deep sighs, then sailed away on poems and roses.” Alexandra then said goodbye again in her eulogy at the… Read More
