Nobody is exactly normal, everyone has their oddities and their quirks. Still, for any particular quality, the normal distribution curve, that familiar bell shape, does exist, and by definition most folks are happily camped out under the comfort of the big dome, while a few stragglers are destined to live their lives under the thin remains of the long tail, far to one side or the other. And the long […]
I’m sitting in the cafeteria (actually, the so-called “cyber-cafe” portion) of the Alliance Francaise in Paris, having the goal in mind of seeing how much I can write in two and one-half hours. I apologize for the recent absence of posts to anyone who is missing them. Primarily that’s been because I’ve been focusing on trying to improve my French, and to do that I have to study and also […]
Waiting for the coffee to kick in, here’s the report from Sunday. We slept in and lounged around in the morning, then gave the apartment a thorough cleaning, which it badly needed. Suzie then took the boys and Fernando back to the Pariskate facility. We met up again about 4 at the St. Placide Metro stop near Montparnasse. One of the best things about Paris (especially for someone like me, […]
We spent the 4th of July taking in a beautiful, sunny, mild, fresh day in Paris. We didn’t get out until noon, but got a lot accomplished. My first order of the day was to get a haircut, something I hadn’t had in too long a time. Right around the block we’d noticed a salon, so we went back there. Suzie has adopted a strategy of sometimes leaving me on […]