I am not ashamed to admit that one of the very first things I will do once we can finally feel confident about the relaxed restrictions is to schedule a hair appointment! I was lucky that I got a haircut a week before we all went into confinement. My hair is kept pretty…

  “All By Myself” Written by Eric Carmen And sung brilliantly by Celine Dion    Recently I asked a male friend for advice about a business matter. He answered me this way; “Well I can give my two cents worth, although my wife says that since I have been home here all day every day,…

  Whenever I am in Paris, I often just like to  meander. When I decide to take a long walk,  I head in a certain direction and see where it takes me. One day I headed north from my apartment in the 9th arrondissement crossing over Rue de Clichy walking up hill into Montmartre.  …

  “Spring has sprung. The grass has riz. I wonder where the birdies is.”  Author unknown but suspected to be from Brooklyn, New York    It’s been more than a month now, hasn’t it? Give or take, depending on where you are, that we have been cut off from so many of our friends and…

  Ladies, I could not believe the response from last week’s blog about wearing your pearls! I want to thank you for the emails and comments. And I wanted to share with you the pictures I received from readers along with their comments and stories.   Janet Fleming “My Mum gave me my pearls for…

  Being at home, I have started going through my closets, and other nooks and crannies, with the intention of doing a little spring cleaning.   However, it’s easy to get side-tracked, stumbling and stalling over something that I have not seen or looked at in years.   When Shardie, my BF, suggested that I…

  Hello all — First of all, I pray that you and your families are well and safe wherever you are. Like me, I am sure that you cannot begin to digest or absorb all that has transpired in the last few weeks. I am trying to process our world unnerved, where there is so…

  Are there still counts in France? Yes indeed. As part of a Loire Valley Château tour, I paid a visit to the stunning Château de Nitray built in the 16th century. This where I met my first count | Monsieur le comte.     The Count de Nitray Despite the French revolution, nobility still…

  Even a girl who loves Paris needs a vacation in the sun once in a while,  and this year  I went to visit my cousin Maggie who lives on Maui. It’s a long way away so the last thing I expected to find there was a little bit of France. Most tourists don’t know…

  Can you see yourself sitting at this outdoor café in Paris? A  frothy coffee at the ready, pen in hand, finally starting something you have only dreamed about? “Nowhere in the world is someone more inspired to write or become a writer than in Paris,” says my new friend Gabrielle Luthy. Gabrielle has started…