The Paris Interlude Issue
May 2014—The search for proper balance between explorations in Paris and elsewhere in France weighs on the minds of many travelers as they plan...
You know you live in Paris when… You don’t
You don't live in Paris anymore. You now live at the center of a nameless territory with a radius of one kilometer, legally circumscribed by coronavirus confinement. If you were to give that territory a name, it would be your own.
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...
France Revisited Newsletter: The Inauguration Issue
Dear Friends and Fellow Travelers, January 19, 2017. We gather here today to recognize and affirm our place in the world. We gather not to walk lock-step towards a single destination, but to wherever our interests, whims and desires may lead us, without willful harm to others. Where are we? Let us consider:
Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés, the Lecture
Award-winning travel writer and editor Gary Lee Kraut lecture on the subject of “Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés: In Search of the Perfect Travel Moment in France” at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library on Feb. 8, 2013.
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...
Black Diva and the Roman Theater of Orange
I don't often show pictures of myself with celebrities, artists, winegrowers, chefs, politicians or other living icons that I meet in the course of my work, but that’s the best way to introduce the beautiful local Diva that I met the other day while in Orange, in the Vaucluse area of Provence.
On being the press
The other day I invited my mother to come with me to visit the Philadelphia Art Museum and the city’s Rodin Museum. She was...
Labor of Love Day
Monday, September 1, Labor (of Love) Day -- It's a schizophrenic day for Americans living in France, aware as we are that it's Labor Day...