Tag: vignettes
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...
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...
A friend of a friend is a stranger
I was going to a dinner party on rue Delambre in the Montparnasse Quarter. One of the sidewalks was blocked because they were filming...
No one has friends at times like this
I helped an acquaintance move the other day. Not sure that I'd call him a friend, but he's someone from the neighborhood whom I know well enough that I responded "Sure" to his call for help him move some boxes and furniture.