Before Chelsea left to go back to her job in Paris, we went shopping. Do you know what it is like to go shopping with someone who no matter what they put on it looks like a million bucks?…

  The house next door is nearly completed. Rene is not sitting in the corner other than to put in the electrical plugs. The layers of chaux (lime) paint Rene (the contractor, artisan, clever one man show…) was stripping layers…

At the first brocante I ever went to years ago I found a postcard of a woman impeccably dressed carrying eggs in a basket, water from the fountain in a zinc watering can, and carrying vegetables in her white crisp…

    "Land for sale in the heart of Paris, where the Eiffel Tower will be built…"   That was what the article said in the massive 1854 book full of newspaper articles, some of them written by Balzac. French…