An official kiss from the French ambassador to the United States seals the deal
Joanne Silver received from France's Ambassador to the US Pierre Vimont the decoration of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, the most prestigious honor a scholar or academician can receive from the French Government.
The Green Traveler: Arbor Day
Celebrating Arbor Day in New Jersey. When I get back to Paris next week I’m sure to find my plants looking dry and forlorn but alive and willing to be nursed back to health through the spring. The secret to raising plants, I’ve found, is to not get too attached to them.
GLK and WTI support the arts through “Vintage Paris” donation
Gary Lee Kraut and Words Travel International, Inc., publisher of France Revisited, are proud to announce their sponsorship of the arts in Philadelphia through...
GLK and WTI support the arts through “Vintage Paris” donation
Gary Lee Kraut and Words Travel International, Inc., publisher of France Revisited, are proud to announce their sponsorship of the arts in Philadelphia through...
Skytrees, three kinds
I've been walking with my head held high today, looking up to the buds of springtime in Paris. Here are the chestnut, the plane...
Cross-Cultural Insights into Health or How I Spent My Winter Vacation
Only an expatriate can understand the pleasure of returning home without having to be someone’s guest. There’s no place like home, of course, and...
Bomb Threat on the TGV
I shared a 4-seat section with a laid-back couple and their joyful, fidgety 3-year-old daughter. I had a window seat, riding backwards. The family and I had exchanged greetings in Paris as they settled into a seating arrangement whereby the woman sat across from me, the man to my left, and the child diagonally, with the warning from her mother not to donner des coups de pied au monsieur, that is, kick me.
Uncovering French Weapons of Mass Seduction
A man needs to be in love in order to think of the French capital as a romantic or sexy destination whereas a woman need only hear the word “Paris.” Another word that’s sure to get a woman packing is “naughty.” Put “naughty” and “Paris” together and you get Heather Stimmler-Hall's "Naughty Paris: A Lady’s Guide to the Sexy City."
Writing in cafés
No offense to writers who claim to get significant work done in Paris cafés, but that’s an urban legend as far as I can...