Live Like a Local in Paris
Now is your opportunity to live in Paris like a Parisian!
My friend Andie’s excellent apartment in the 15rh Arrondissement is available for rent!
Not Your Norman Rockwell Park Experience
Local concerts in the park have been among summer’s greatest pleasures. A gathering in this time of unprecedented global turmoil is a very different eperience.
Mutton Dressed as Lamb
I allowed my two beautiful daughters to survive their teenage years, and now they are charged with putting up with me in my dotage – a fair exchange. They have promised to tell me if I try to look like a lamb instead of the eighty-one-year old ewe that I am.
Faking it with Orson Welles
Working with Orson Welles required a tough hide and a determination to do a good job, whether he cooperated or not! Here’s how a little fakery saved the project!
Hold My Hand
I was 14 when I had my first date with a boy named Billy Erwin. He was adorable and is still my FB friend. After several marriages and being widowed twice, I recently began dating again at 80. The experiences were different in the extreme! Read on for details.
I’ve Lost My Voice
No, I’m not ill, not even sniffly, but my writer’s voice has been stifled by inactivity for too long. Like any other part of us, that elusive element writers call their voice can go dormant with lack of use. Here’s my declaration of intent to jog that part of me back into action!
Connection
Sixty years ago, we were tall, blond knock-outs, and we had a glorious time celebrating life together. When the two of us – Fran at six feet and me at five foot nine – entered a party, everyone knew we had arrived. Many times we were taken for sisters.