I suppose I should really hold off this post until next October.  But I have such a problem only doing the things I should do.  And I r...

   My new novel, The Lazaretto,  will soon be available in print.  In anticipation of this, I am posting an excerpt from the book.  T...

  Here in the United States we take the time to honor those Americans who fell in defense of our country on this last Monday in May.  War ...

  No one has yet told me they are tired of Paris photographs so I will continue to offer up a few every now and then.  If any of you do get ...

  It's that time again: awards season.  Not the Academy Awards.  Not the Billboard Awards.  Not even the Darwin Awards.  I'm talking...

    I had heard about a little cafe at the Hotel d'Aubusson in a little tourist guide book I'd downloaded onto my Kindle.  Cafe...

   In Paris, there are many differences between the Right Bank and the Left Bank of the Seine.  But there is one thing that is exactly th...

   On a rainy afternoon, we arrived at the Montmartre Cemetery with a daunting task.  We were there to search for a particular crypt in...

   For those of you who follow my blog, you know how little I knew about France before I began this journey.  As we prepare to leave I can...

   I have never lived in a city where mass transit was an accepted mode of travel.  I've been on a New York City subway, I've ridd...