July 2nd, 2008
Well, finding Paris in New York is much easier than I thought–especially if you take your search to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, I took an incredibly long cab ride from my hotel in SoHo to the museum–clearly I was being ripped off as the ride home took a mere 10 minutes. The rest of […]
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June 14th, 2008
I found these photos on flickr and instantly fell in love with whatever I was looking at. With some patience and the aid of Google, I was able to dig a little deeper for my own interests sake and couldn’t be selfish and keep all the info to myself.
This is just one of the beautifully […]
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May 7th, 2008
I am fairly up on art, sculpture, design–artsy fartsy kinds of things you might say. But I cannot tell a lie, I have never heard of Richard Serra. Or if I have it just isn’t registering with me right now and I will have to ask my resident art expert, my daughter, Taylor.
Richard Serra–he is an […]
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May 5th, 2008
I have a great deal of admiration for the way the French embrace their cultural heritage. Often times, they stubbornly cling to ideas that came to life hundreds of years ago, having been passed down from generation to generation which to those of us looking in, can seem outdated. And yet, you cannot convince them […]
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April 30th, 2008
With gas in my neck of the woods reaching $3.75 a gallon today and our currency worldwide devalued to the point of making travel, even on a budget, an extravagance, I am continuing along the line of ways to see Paris on the cheap(er).
Hôtel Saint Dominique is a delightfully charming 2-star hotel located in the 7th […]
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April 25th, 2008
Put your pencils down people. You have had plenty of time to try and figure out how my mind works….if indeed you have figured that out, please let me in on the secret, ok? So, answers to this week’s haiku:
little eye contact, even less personal space, get me out of here
Here you have a […]
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April 23rd, 2008
First off, I just have to say that I could not love this graphic more and would chop it all up and use it a million different ways in crazy collages or decoupaged on a pendent to create a necklace or bracelet charm. Too much fun. The guy is Napoleon and Musée des Arts décoratifs […]
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April 21st, 2008
Yes, yes, yes, by all means, this should be on your list of things to do in Paris. As much as I talk about other gardens that are my favorites, Jardin du Luxembourg is equally as grand as the Tuilieres and can be as intimate as Palais Royal. It is deceiving in size as it […]
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January 25th, 2008
With all the coaxing I have been doing to get you to travel, I forgot to keep you up to date with what is going on in the city. It is Fashion Week. The city swells with media, journalists and starlets all wanting access to the people that keep Paris’ heart beat going strong–the designers. Karl […]
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January 14th, 2008
I have been meaning to share this and kept forgetting. This is what greets me each morning as my computer kicks into gear and I get my day going. It’s a web cam that is perched on top of Trocodero pointing sort of west (I did not come into this world armed […]
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