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
I’ve been reading the reflective essays of the Emerson students I took to Aix this May. Some arrived worried about having to speak a language […] Read More
As a place to stroll down narrow, centuries-old streets or to shop for field-fresh food in near-daily markets, the city of Aix-en-Provence is without peer […] Read More
I confess. There have been times in the last week that I’ve craved life in the slow lane. This morning, after breakfast with my host […] Read More