There’s More France Outside of Paris

There’s More France Outside of Paris

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine. If I could make any wish for my friends, right after health and happiness (and of course, world peace), would be traveling. I know it can sometimes be hard to justify, allocating...
Paris in a Handbag

Paris in a Handbag

My daughter Regan James and her husband Lou Pine just returned from their Parisian honeymoon, and I’m delighted to have her guest-blogging today! A couple years ago, my boyfriend and I were about to go on a family trip in the south of France, and we were...
Packing for Paris – or Anywhere

Packing for Paris – or Anywhere

In just a few weeks I leave for my yearly sabbatical to France. I used to be a delayed gratification girl – you know, celebrate after the journey is done and the war’s been won (rah, rah). I waited to go to Paris for years as the prize for some unnamed accomplishment....
Wear This, Not That – for Travel

Wear This, Not That – for Travel

I remember when people dressed up for airplane travel. I miss that. Travel can be a very harried proposition, and I’ve always admired women who arrive at the airport looking calm and pulled together, not looking like a bunch of random parts that popped out of a...
The French Anniversary – A Love Story

The French Anniversary – A Love Story

My husband and I were married in a chateau just outside of Paris which was the former home of Anne Boleyn’s aunt, now home to dear friends whom we toast every 11th of  April. It was a symbolic (not legal) ceremony, which we later formalized complete with license, name...
An American in Paris

An American in Paris

Let me tell you about my first trip to Paris. It was April of 2011 – April in Paris.  Finding myself unexpectedly single, I went on a date with a charming and handsome man. On that first date, he told me he had to go to Paris on business in a few weeks, and...

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