3 French Sculptors Met at the Met: Carpeaux, Rodin, Bourdelle
Considerations on coming upon narrative sculptures by three great French sculptors, Carpeaux, Rodin, Bourdelle, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York .
Of Cats and Friends
Travel writing can be solitary work, but a travel writer with a cat needs friends.
I used to leave my chartreux Moumoon with Isabelle, but...
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.
Still Life with Eiffel Tower
My friend Monique is tall, thin, recently single, and recently blonde. She’s invited me to a play at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 8:30 curtain....
The Electrician
The back table by the kitchen at Kasaphani, Paris’s premier Greek Cypriot restaurant, is reserved for family and friends. Tony, the oldest of the...
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...
Dunkin’ Donuts and that cute little village in the Loire Valley
An New Jersey intersection with a Dunkin' Donuts, a Lukoil gas station, a 7-11, three barbershops and a laundromat is the American equivalent of a café in a village in the Loire Valley.
Post-Election Haircut in Paris
Five days after Barack Obama was elected president I went to get a haircut. There were no other customers in the shop, odd for a...