From the WSJ’s Notable & Quotable: Jonathan V. Last explains how kids who are given gender-neutral toys will, on their very own, “gender the heck out of them.” When he was four, our eldest, a boy, discovered that sticks make for highly effective swords. . . . His sisters, meanwhile, gravitated toward decidedly less aggressive […]
A Radical Concept: Boys and Girls Are Different
Debbie at the Minipalais, Paris
Paris Greetings from the Place Vendôme
Tune Out the Talking Heads; Tune In a $130m Extravaganza
Are you going to the polls on 8 November with one hand on the lever and the other holding your nose? With six weeks to go and inane droning on the presidential election intensifying, you might want to tune out the talking heads and tune into Netflix’s latest release, The Crown. At $130 million, the […]
Tuesday in Paris
Greetings from our Paris window
Greetings from a Car-Free Day in Paris
On Sunday, 26 September about one-half of Paris was off limits to autos and limited exclusively to pedestrians. Exceptions were made for buses, taxis, and emergency vehicles. Under grey skies and light showers, areas around the Louvre and Champs Elysees were inundated with cyclists, prams, scooters and pedestrians. The 2nd car-free day in Paris is part […]
Greetings from The Café des Musées in the Marais in Paris
Jimmy Buffett’s: A Pirate Looks at 40
In remembrance of Jimmy Buffett, who passed away on September 1, I think you’ll like the following piece I posted in April of 2019 on Jimmy and his friend Jerry Jeff Walker and the Key West “Pirate,” Phil Clark. Make sure you have a chance to appreciate where you’re going and where you’ve been. Jimmy […]
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