Just Another American in Paris

Au Revoir

Published on 2011-07-02 01:04:00

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. By the time many of you see this video, we will be on a plane, winging our way back across the Atlantic to our home in Washington, DC.  While I'm sad that our Parisian adventure is over and cannot watch this video without welling up, my heart is filled with joy from the amazing experiences we've had and the many wonderful friends we've made. In writing this blog, I've been purposefully oblique about many details of my family life.  The

Of Rats and Men

Published on 2011-07-01 01:03:00

We're coming down to the wire here and I realize that there's not time to write about my visit to the royal palace at Compiegne, Anish Kapoor's Leviathan installation at the Grand Palais which I visited twice, dinner at Spring (after they cancelled our lunch reservation....grrrr), and half a dozen other things that I never got around to saying much about.  So it goes. But I could not leave Paris without taking the time to pass by the shop of Julien Aurouze on rue des Halles where it r

What My Husband Will Miss about Paris

Published on 2011-06-30 00:58:00

For one thing, the view right outside the front door of his office building.  There's nothing quite like that in Arlington, Virginia.