The Great Paris Puzzle: Figuring Out How to Stay
I’m leaving Paris. That’s an awful sentence to write, let alone an awful reality to face. If you’ve read my blog at all, you might recall (by the roughly 6,782 mentions) how much… Continue reading
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40 Days of Paris: Day One
When you live in Paris, you get a little intoxicated on its sheer Paris-ness, and you start to do stupid things, like take for granted everything there is to do here. You sleep… Continue reading
Bad Blogger and LET’S GO GIANTS!
Hello, Interwebs … I’ve missed you! I’ve been the world’s worst poster lately, but with good reason: I’ve had a parade of friends visiting in Paris. The past five weeks have been a… Continue reading
Jeremy Renner in a Bourne Movie? Yes, Please
I love movies, and predictably, my favorite movies are those that take me somewhere more exciting than a movie studio in southern California. Action movies get the nod as my favorite genre (along… Continue reading
Paris vs. New York in Action
I love Vahram Muratyan’s colorful and simple illustrations that show the differences between Paris and New York. If you haven’t gotten the book, I highly recommend you get on that – it’s genius.… Continue reading
Pozzetto Caffé, Paris: Yes, Please
I’m in love with Pozzetto’s creamy, authentic, Italian-style gelato. And by “in love” I mean that every day at the end of yoga when I’m supposed to be meditating on my mat, I’m… Continue reading
Bourgogne: You Should Totally Go There
Do you like wine? France? Beautiful countryside and vineyard vistas? Nice people? Wine? (Oh, hang on, I already said that … ) Cheese? Delicious food? Oui? Then you need to get to the… Continue reading
French Girl Flair: Messy Buns, Braids, Twists, Chignons, and What(k)nots
Daily (nay, perhaps hourly) I find myself coveting some beautiful French woman’s messy bun here in Paris. I’m obsessed with their twists, chignons and braids (the more Hunger Games–esque the better) and any… Continue reading
Musée d’Orsay and Ernest Hemingway: Go There, Read Him, Fall in Love with Paris Again
Today is Tuesday, September 4, which means you have t-minus 5 days to get to the d’Orsay to see Misia: reine (queen) de Paris. If you’re in Paris, please go; you won’t be… Continue reading
Home, Fall, and My Paris Surfboard
As America prepares to celebrate its long weekend and one day of freedom from laboring, I’m sitting in Paris, contemplating how freaking lucky I am to have been given this opportunity not to… Continue reading