Month: April 2015
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The First Poppies!
Renoir's poppies. Van Gogh's Irises. My friend's roses.
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Parisian Scrapbook
Found at the brocante: A 1930s scrapbook, fifty pages worth plus corresponding letters. Ticket stubs from the famous sites, menus, photos, postcards from the Arch, Pigalle, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame… memories collected, glued on pages, notes to recall the…
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April 11th Will Always Be
My Dad's Day.
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What to Do in France? Can You Tell Me?
A place that has been abandoned in Paris in the Marais. Nearly everyday someone asks me about France and the brocantes or both to the tune of: Can you tell me what to do in France? Since my natural…
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I Wonder if he Returned
"Ma Chère", The letter begins like many others with a tender greeting. Though the force of the words that followed were like none I had ever read… Was this postcard from her beloved, suffering beyond her reach? Had she held…
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