Travel Stories

  I am thrilled to launch my 2022 Women of Global Interest Series, personal interviews with 7  of the interesting and accomplished women around the world that you need to know! Here is the fabulous Line-Up. NOTE Featured image is by New York-based award-winning photographer Susie Lang   Finding JOY In Every Chapter of Life…

  Well, I have been all over Paris this week. It has been a bit rainy here and there but mild by my Canadian standards so it has not stopped me from getting out and about!   It was a very bleak-looking day, in fact, two days this past week, that I found this eclectic…

  I am someone who believes that the Christmas spirit should start just a few weeks before the 25th.   I cannot stand those TV networks and radio stations that play nothing but Christmas movies and music right after Halloween for heaven’s sake!   Being in Paris though, and as of last Wednesday, December 1st,…

  It’s been two long years but I am finally back in Paris!   Am I so stimuli deprived that the city seems even more beautiful than before?   I got here last Tuesday and I have been gorging on a feast for the eyes, stomach, and soul ever since.   For those of you…

  I admit when I am in Paris, I pay more attention to my overall attire.   More than I would on any other vacation that’s for sure, carefully coordinating my outfits, and adding a beautifully draped or knotted scarf accented with jewelry and French perfume.   I want to feel pulled together, elegant, sexy…

  When was the last time you had French Onion Soup…although in France, I guess they just call it onion soup?   In my case, it was ages ago, not as far back as the 18th century when it was invented,  but certainly before I worried about all that salt, cheese and bread.   I…

  “Not every true story is like a good novel, but this one is. Not every memoir of first love has a satisfying ending, but this one does.” John Irving Best-selling author of 17 novels including The World According to Garp Paris Blue — A Memoir of First Love by Julie Scolnik   When critically…

  After the interview I did with Lindsey Tramuta and her book, The New Parisienne, The Women and Ideas Shaping Paris,  I started thinking of Parisian-based women who had inspired me as I was growing up.   France’s national chanteuse Édith Piaf  (“Je ne regrette rien”) came to mind.     German-French actress Romy Schneider…

  Alison Browne is what you might call a modern-day nomad.   I knew I would like her when she also told me that she has always had the notion that she is secretly French.  (Me too, me too, me too!)   Alison was born in Montréal and taught elementary school for twenty-eight years.  …