We went from macro to micro today. After yesterday’s sweeping views from atop the Eiffel Tower, we spent this afternoon looking at the world in […] Read More
Category: Slow Lane
The Eiffel Tower is much more than the iconic architectural image of Paris and probably all of France. It’s an everlasting expression of the 7-year-old […] Read More
Slow-lane travel demands neither backwoods destinations nor dirt roads. You can even carve slow-lane space in crowded cities and within yards of tourist throngs. That’s […] Read More
Our apartment is about five blocks from the magnificent Luxembourg Gardens in a corner of the 6th Arrondissement near Montparnasse. It’s a bit like bridging […] Read More
La gaufre saved the day. Or perhaps it was the kids and their boats on the Luxembourg Gardens pond. Or Devon’s first glance, from a […] Read More
In June 2007, just a few months before the birth of our first grandchild, Kathy and I returned from a five-month sabbatical in France. We […] Read More
As Valentine’s Day approached last year, Kathy and I window-shopped in Aix-en-Provence, admiring the variety of heart collages, shoe arrangements and other creative if sometimes […] Read More
The images from across the ocean have been painful: an office room, its floor covered with blood and papers; the arc of iron latticework at […] Read More
This article was written for and first appeared in the Christian Science Monitor SAINT-PIERRESVILLE, France — Gerard Barras scribbles as he talks. On yellow sticky […] Read More