
Tag: Aix-en-Provence


The best travel days are built on serendipity. They turn on small surprises that nonetheless pay big dividends. But always, I find, they require a […] Read More

I’ve never been a particularly good solo traveler. But over these last few weeks, after 46 years of marriage, I’m getting better at it. I’m […] Read More

The light dances, changing hues, shaping brilliance and shadow. It warms the evening and the soul. Take a stroll. It’s a chance to reflect and to lavish in the sunlight’s last hours.

By now, our third stay in the second-floor apartment of the solid house our landlady’s grandfather built early in the last century, Kathy and I […] Read More

We head home to Boston Saturday, and some of my students reiterated after our game of petanque this evening that they just don’t want to […] Read More