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The addiction to keeping score
Two weeks into the new year. How are the measurements going? The weighing in on just how much we should berate or congratulate? How much self-inflicted weight have you put on your shoulders since New...
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Paris Artist: January
I’m a bit of a magpie with my Paris art. A few watercolors, a slew of photos, a mishmash of phrases, a handful of quotes. Beautiful clutter. Nice to look at but still has the anxiousness that...
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Swimming in Paris
Most people think Parisians sit in cafés all day long, that they never exercise and they are thin because of something they eat. Likely the cheese and wine that makes their gut bacteria that perfect...
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Valentine’s Day mail… I’ve got this covered
Sometimes the best ideas happen when writing journal pages. I highly recommend it, as you likely already know. Today, whilst sipping tea over my pages, I came up with the the idea of sending out...
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Love, Paris style
Surprises galore with my new project of sending Valentine Paris Letters for people: Some people want me to send them the Valentine. Other people are having it sent to friends, sisters, and parents. I...
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Renoir’s Birthday
I have been in love with my new painting journal. It’s a great way to organize random tidbits about Paris. I might just have to do a page for every day of the year. Or maybe I’ll have to do a Paris...
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A haberdashery, buttons and a Paris Letter
Somewhere between Canada and Paris I lost a button on my coat. Somewhere between the airport and the apartment, I lost another. And between the apartment and the Métro, I lost yet another. Travel is...
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So you want to write a book…
I spent half an hour on the floor today, grinding a tennis ball into my back. So you know it’s book writing season. Isabel Allende once said the hardest part of writing was the physical sitting. She’s...
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Five years ago today I arrived in Paris
I didn’t even realize it until Facebook told me. This was five years ago yesterday at the airport in Toronto: Look at me. The sensible travel clothes, the beat up suitcase. The MEC backpack. So ready....
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April in Paris and the latest Paris Letter
This April’s Paris Letter was inspired by blooms, all things pastel, and by Pinterest, that cavernous time-wasting/inspiring site of beauty and wonder. I’ve been a Pinterest maniac lately… By far my...
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Florence, the grandpa angel, and a Travel Letter
April’s Travel Letter is about Florence, Italy. I don’t want to bad mouth Florence. It’s not it’s fault. I, like a good Catholic, like to blame myself for the travel failure that was Florence. I was a...
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Paris Letters and the glory of ebooks
I woke this morning to a lovely surprise, this lovely photo of Paris Letters by runwaychef over at Instagram. She’s a satisfying follow. With this summer sunshine, I’m noticing the need to have a print...
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I’m not even over Philip Seymour Hoffman
And Robin Williams is still slumped by the door. Prince is leaning in the elevator, hoping to get where he is going before he’s gone. And David Bowie’s last video still runs through the back of my...
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Devoting to done: The magic of completing unfinished business
So the new book is done and delivered. I’m now going back and forth with the publishing house, and once we agree on the title, I’ll shout it from all four corners of this little acre of cyberspace....
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Paris Keys, August’s Letters and the agonizing search for book titles
August’s Paris Letter is in the shop. It’s about all the fancy keys you’ll find in an old broad of a town like Paris. A few keys I found at the flea market… And a few key chains for those keys from...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Birthday
Today, September 24th, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday in 1896. He fell in love with Zelda when he was in a training camp in Alabama. She wouldn’t marry him because he couldn’t support them on his...
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Book Buzz: My (Part-Time) Paris Life
In this Paris memoir, Lisa Anselmo, who is reeling from her mother’s death, decides to run away from her life in New York and move to Paris. Of course, to afford this option, she needs to still keep...
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Sneak peak at the book… and baby
That would be our baby reading the galleys of the new book A Paris Year. Look at that gorgeous skull. Evidence that my cravings for glasses of milk is warranted. Another close up of the book: If you...
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Introducing our new travel companion: Amélie
The lovely Amélie arrived a few weeks ago. The delivery, recovery and first few days went all as expected. It’s true what all those mommy bloggers say: You’ll know when it’s a contraction. It’s not...
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Six Paris Letters and a delightful new print
What have I been up to beyond making a human? Painting, bien sur! Here is a roundup of the latest hand-painted letters… now, finally, listed in the shop. All are personalized with the name of the...
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