Nov. 2, 2011. There’s something therapeutic about turning the clocks back in the fall—harsh reality therapy. For an hour or two we can fool ourselves into believing that we’ve gained an hour of Saturday night [...]
Aug. 5, 2011. I think of it as The Summer That Wasn’t – L’Eté qui n’a pas été. Last month was the coolest July on record in 30 years and probably the grayest too. June [...]
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.” But the real answer is June, those long days of [...]
It’s been unusually cold in Paris, mostly a dry cold though. It’s the damp cold that normally marks the Paris winter so, warmly dressed, it’s nearly a pleasure to be in the cold outside. It’s [...]
A gray, rainy day in Paris, but Paris is probably beautiful in any weather. The women too. I couldn’t be here for the filming of the “She Walked Along the River/T-Shirt Song” video, but now [...]
I just caulked the windows in my living room/office so that I don’t have to type with gloves on. With gloves that sentence reads as follows: IO ujuts cqgulKEFD TQEHW qioasdddnows ioh ny sdl;aingvv toomoffaciw [...]
A rare view of ice on Canal Saint-Martin. Winter sky over gray rooftop.
Just got back to Paris from Berlin where I was dumbfounded to find that BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, German radio, and the American papers (online) could speak of nothing but the weather! Weather talk continues [...]
