Couples Therapy in the Cour d’Or Museum in Metz
I wouldn’t have thought that a museum could be so romantic. In Metz of all places. I didn’t expect to encounter so many couples in city’s Cour d’Or Museum.
You know you live in Paris when … Gazelle Horns
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 Other Paris Wrap: Dior on the Champs-Elysées
Not to be outdone by the Christo-wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe, Bernard Arnault, chairman of Dior and LVMH, has had a monumental building on the Champs-Elysées wrapped following "Christian Dior's original drawings of 1955."
1952: The First Time I Saw Paris…
Lyla Blake Ward revisits her first trip to Paris as a 24-year-old newlywed with her husband Russ. The year was 1952 and the city was still coated in its post-war grime.
The Mona Lisa of the Champs-Elysées (How Le Cat Killed Curiosity)
Paris seeks herd immunity against curiosity by installing 20 monumentally insipid bronzes of Philippe Geluck's Le Chat on the Champs-Elysees.
The Stuffed Animal Assisted Living Facility
Sadly, we aren't allowed to visit our loved ones in the stuffed animal assisted living facilities in France during the pandemic. We can only smile and wave through the window.
On Winter Solstice Night (Includes Audio)
A solstice night tale of darkness poetry and wonder in Paris. Sometimes, late in the evening, I’d look out the window and see him sitting on his stool just beyond the edge of the awning, in the light of the streetlamp, writing in a notebook.
You know you live in Paris when… you have une prostate
Mistaking the gender of a noun as personal as your prostate is more than linguistic, it touches on your very sense of self.
Biking in Burgundy: Stopping by Vines on a Sunny Morning (Video)
Whose vines these are I think I know.
His cellar's in the village though;
He will not mind this makeshift bar -
To share with Claire an apéro*.