April newsletter: Lost notebooks, found pages
I have two bad habits with respect to my writing. 1. I don’t immediately type up my notes. 2. I lose my notebooks. So how to deal with a notebook thief?
Paris tongue in cheek: From the butt plug to the giant colon
Some travelers are so focused on the pleasures of good food and drink in Paris that they aren't aware that the powers that be are equally concerned about the other end of the digestive tract. As a reminder, Paris is giving a lesson in colon care on one of the major squares of the city.
France Revisited Strikes Silver, Editor Goes on Tour
PASADENA, CA (Feb. 11, 2015)–The North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) today announced that France Revisited, www.francerevisited.com, won the Silver Award as first runner-up in the 2014 NATJA Awards Competition in the Best Online Travel Magazine category. This awards competition honors the “best of the best” in travel writing...
The Charlie Hebdo Survivor Issue and the Sabbath Candles
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?
Wanderer
Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Beckett, Miller, drama, poetry. On her first visit to Paris, Scottish playwright Morna Young is looking for something as she wanders through the celebrated bookshop Shakespeare and Company but she doesn’t know what… until she finds it.
We Were Charlie
After the terrorist attacks of January 7-9, 2015, Paris's Place de la République become the main memorial gathering place. We were Charlie, people said. And then we were what?
A Mother’s Worry (cartoon included)
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, the day of the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo, my mother called to see if I was alright and if I lived anywhere near where the attack had taken place. Two days later, when the kosher grocer Hypercacher was attacked she didn't call.
Scraps of 2014, Inspiration for 2015
Anyone else would likely sweep them into the trash, but for me the scraps of paper scribbled with my handwriting that cover the horizontal...
The November Newsletter: From Le Black Friday to Le Cyber Monday
At first, last Friday, I thought it was the ad campaign for a new American horror film opening in Paris. I then realized that the notices for a mind-control experiment meets an invasion of the body snatchers were real: BLACK FRIDAY had arrived in France. Not just any Black Friday, but LE Black Friday