Tomorrow I set out on my next adventure (Though, really, isn’t every new day an adventure?) and so I thought it high time I posted the remaining little tidbits I collected during my year in Paris. Most of these were always meant for the blog, and just never made it there. More – oh so [...]
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Odds & Ends From Paris
Posted in Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots, Travel on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Random Thoughts – Random Snapshots
Posted in Cambridge/Boston - The Present, Snapshots on August 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sudden downpour in Harvard Square. Dashed under the awning at Au Bon Pain with the homeless and night maurauders of the outdoor chess scene. Sleeping man at a table, one dollar bill flapping in the wind.
The rain. Verdict? My bike sucks in the rain. Like, a lot. Mental note: Get helmet back from Prana where [...]
Nothing Day – Saturday the 22nd
Posted in Brain Dump, Cambridge/Boston - The Present, Snapshots on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow I work a full day with two kids, and don’t stop until next Saturday. Today I enjoyed my last day off for a while, and with nothing planned, I soaked up the details of the day.
A tiny little dog, sitting happily panting in a fountain between Fanuiel Hall and the North End.
Two tourists, walking [...]
Snapshots – Reverse Culture Shock
Posted in Cambridge/Boston - The Present, Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots on July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My past few days are better described by a series of moving images than with words:
The winding lines at Charles de Gaulle that lead me to my airplane are filled with burgundy French passports and the buttery tongues of Paris. Other than a veiled woman who is speaking non-native English to her three children (two [...]
Snapshots – Trainspotting & Moonshine
Posted in Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two images tonight. Image the First:
Step down from the Metro and onto the platform along with about twenty other people coming home late from work or a night out with friends. The crowd begins to move towards the steps that lead down to the exit; they move as one and their pace is brisk with [...]
La Crise
Posted in Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I passed this empty store front today and had to snap a picture. At least the French are facing La Crise with a wee bit of humor. More, perhaps, than us Americans can say…
Rough translation: There’s nothing here?
Well (duh) yeah- It’s the crisis!
Snapshot – A Much Better Pick-Up Line
Posted in Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After a couple of really horrible pick-up lines thrown at me in Paris, here’s a little ditty that actually worked:
I was in the 19th yesterday, a much more ethnically “authentic” area of Paris, grabbing a quick bite au puce at an Arab kebab shop. As I passed from the counter to the back of the [...]
Snapshot – Escorts
Posted in Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday 9:10 am
Police motorcycle stopping traffic at Les Gobelins. Blue lights flashing to signal something huge. Tourist buses? Yes. But full of soldiers. I count eight tourist buses filled with French soldiers, getting their official police escort this morning to who knows where.
Wednesday 9:10 pm
Six Gendarmerie vans all in a row, all with blue lights [...]
Snapshot – Please Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Posted in Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots on March 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Paris Metro sounds a loud tone and illuminates a little red light before closing its doors. Some brave (or desperate or stupid, depending on how you look at it) souls rush the doors as they close. Some braver (or more desperate or more supid) folks stand in the arch and push the doors apart, [...]
Snapshot – Last Train Back
Posted in Paris - Fall 2008, Snapshots on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Paris Metro stops running around 12:30 on weekdays and around 1:30-2 o’clock on weekends. Tonight I was at a house party way up near Point de Clichy, a good €15-20 cab ride from home. I desperately wanted to stay, as the dance party was just getting started, but the sting in my eyes from [...]
