An afternoon nap on the French national holiday, July 14, 2011
Paris, July 15, 2011 – I had a delicious nap on the afternoon of le Quatorze Juillet, the French national holiday, known outside of...
James A. Emanuel, a Great American Poet, Turns 90 in Paris
James A. Emanuel passed away on September 28, 2013, at the age of 92. His ashes are in the columbarim at Pere Lachaise Cemetery...
Les Vaudois: Reflections on a Religious Massacre in Provence
Elizabeth Esris visits the ruins at Mérindol, a hilltop village in the southern portion of Luberon (Vaucluse, Provence), where followers of the Christian Vaudois sect were massacred over a period of five days in 1545 in a crusade ordered by the French King Francois I.
Sex and the Luxury Hotel
When traveling alone, the hot hotel employee fantasy is nothing for to be ashamed of. Still, most travelers manage to control the urge to sequester a chambermaid or baggage boy for hotel sex.
The Seine of the Impressionists and of Our Daily Train
Two ways of looking at the Seine: through the eyes of the Impressionists in the guidebook "La Seine Impressionniste" and through the eyes of a videographer in the video "Notre train quotidien" (Our Daily Train).
Village Life: When I Stop Wandering
Three years into globetrotting with her husband, Judy Kashoff stops to imagine their post-wandering lives in this beautiful dreamscape of village life of southern Europe.
Va-nu-pieds’ Wall for All Seasons
Va-nu-pieds, the Barefoot Photographer, records the change in seasons in Paris by keeping an eye on the Virginia creeper that hangs along the wall of a building a step away from where he lives.
Paris Writers News Interviews Gary Lee Kraut
April 2011 – I’m normally the one asking the questions, but for an interview now appearing on the literary blog Paris Writers Notes, editor...
France Elevates Poet Aimé Césaire to Status of “Great Man” at Pantheon
April 6, 2011 – Little noticed and scantily attended on a warm and sunny spring day, France showed its gratitude to one of its...