Impressions

Sometimes we set aside the practical and the informative to provide personal impressions, stories, vignettes, editorials, commentary, poems, photographic oddities and other eclectic, original material.

Winter Benches, Paris

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There’s a special atmosphere to the gardens and parks of Paris in winter, before the leaves appear on the trees and block the view. Brandon...

Eisenhower, de Gaulle and the Wild Rabbits at the Invalides

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Late on a drizzly afternoon, having learned nothing and felt little from reading about and watching videos of the 75th anniversary of D-Day commemorations in Normandy, I went to visit the wild rabbits that inhabit the lawn of the Invalides.
Gazelle horns (cornes de gazelle) and other Algerian pastries - GLK

You know you live in Paris when … Gazelle Horns

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He arrives bearing gifts. There’s a box of camembert since he knows that you like cheese. He’s also brought a plastic container of eight cornes de gazelle (gazelle horns).

The Charlie Hebdo Survivor Issue and the Sabbath Candles

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The week after terror attacks that targeted journalists at Charlie Hebdo and Jews at the kosher grocery millions of people bought the survivor edition of Charlie Hebdo out of solidarity with the victims and what they represented. But did any think of buying kosher food?

Barefoot in the Parc de Sceaux

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A bike and foot path called La Coulée Verte du Sud Parisien flows south from the edge of Paris by way of the lovely Parc de Sceaux.
D-Day war touring Normandy

War Stories: Dawn in the Normandy Landing Zone

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I was worken by the rain at 6:30 a.m.. Except that it wasn't the raind; it was water drizzling into the room from the ceiling. In a moment of verteran-like panic I had a flashback to one year ago when...

When’s the best time…

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Several times each week someone asks me “When is the best time of year to visit France?” I usually answer "Whenever you can make it."...

No one has friends at times like this

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I helped an acquaintance move the other day. Not sure that I'd call him a friend, but he's someone from the neighborhood whom I know well enough that I responded "Sure" to his call for help him move some boxes and furniture.

Nazi Talk Provides Moral Clarity on Veterans Day—Not

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France's national train company SNCF acknowledges with "profound pain" in Florida its wartime role in the deportation of Jews from 1942 to 1944.

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