Day Twenty: Dia de Portugal
2019-06-11
June 10 is Dia de Portugal, a Portuguese national holiday. Since everything was closed in town, I wrote. And read. Here’s more about this national holiday.Continue Reading
Notre Dame Mourning
2019-04-15
In planning my first trip to Paris, I didn’t care about seeing Notre Dame. I’d read so many descriptions of it by the likes of Dumas, Hugo, Zola. How could Notre Dame be so special? I thought. We landed at Charles de Gaulle the day before Thanksgiving 2003. I wasContinue Reading
Free Solo Extravagance
2019-01-10
Extravagance isn’t free, right? Or experienced solo. Much. MTM and I are driving three hours one-way to see the movie “Free Solo” in IMAX. Have you heard of it? HERE’S A LINK TO THE MOVIE WEBSITE. We’ve gone back-and-forth for weeks, hoping the producers would release the IMAX version someplace nearContinue Reading