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
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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
Last week, a former student sent me a tweet asking if I’d be at Emerson College’s graduation. When I told her I was leading a […] Read More
Room 255 saved my sanity yesterday. No, I haven’t been committed to an asylum yet like the tranquil setting in Saint Remy where Vincent Van […] 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