Weekend Cooking: Veggie Pasta
You would think that in a week when I have pledged to Live Like Julia, I would manage to produce a Julia Child recipe for a Weekend Cooking post. Since the rule that I chose to test drive from Julia … Continue reading →
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An Autobiography of Cheese: From Cheese Hater to Cheese Club Member
This post was inspired by The Whole Fromage by Kathe Lison, who traveled to France in search of its artisanal cheeses. Join From Left to Write on August 22 as we discuss The Whole Fromage. As a member, I received … Continue reading →
Book Review: Death in the City of Light by David King
Book: Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King Genre: True Crime Publisher: Broadway Paperbacks Publication date: 2011 Pages: 416 Source: Purchased Summary: On a late winter day, about three months before the D-Day … Continue reading →
Sunday Salon — August 18
Happy Sunday! Time: // 8:30 am The scene: // at my desk looking out at a cloudy day in the coolest August I can remember. Like most mornings in the last couple of weeks, I put on a fuzzy hoodie … Continue reading →
Last Day in France
On our last day in France we took the Hop-On Hop-Off bus so that we could get around to some of the places we hadn’t seen earlier. The Eiffel Tower: Sainte-Chapelle, which was undergoing renovations so several of the windows … Continue reading →
The Sunday Salon — my first
I’ve decided I’d like to use The Sunday Salon as a way to post little bookish things that aren’t book reviews. I enjoy these posts so much on other people’s blogs. Unfortunately, this urge didn’t come with an idea of … Continue reading →
The Louvre and shopping in Paris!
Here’s our day at the Louvre. The first full day we were in Paris, we took a walk in between our tour activities and our first sighting of I.M. Pei’s pyramid at the Louvre was the moment we really knew … Continue reading →
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
Read I posted my review of a writing book that I find useful both for character development and plotting: Book Review: 45 Master Characters by Victoria Lynn Schmidt. Last week, I read Shades of Earth by Beth Revis in just two … Continue reading →
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées
On our first full day in Paris on our own after our tour ended, I had a plan, but we ditched it and decided to just walk. We walked the Champs-Élysées from the Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe where we … Continue reading →
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
As the summer morphs into back to school season, are you motivated to learn something new from your reading? Check out the Back to School Reading Challenge! Read It’s been a long time since I wrote a Monday post, but … Continue reading →