Part of traveling to a new place is finding a fun hotel that's both convenient but also nice to return to at the end of the day. The difficult thing is that I tend to travel to expensive cities and am always looking for a hotel that is decent but won't break the bank.On my … [Read more...]
Beaubourg
This is a photo from my first day in Paris, which was two weeks ago this weekend. To get a feel for the city, we walked around the afternoon we arrived. When I saw a sign for the Pompidou Centre, we headed in that direction and found this delightful fountain and sculpture … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Foreign Affairs
On a recent transatlantic flight, I read Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Foreign Affairs (Random House, 1984). Although it's been out for more than thirty years, I found it on a daily Amazon deal a while back and thought it looked like something I'd like: complicated … [Read more...]
First impressions of Paris
I recently returned from my first trip to Paris and thought I would spend time there looking for their Chinatown or other Chinese influences like I did in Italy 20-some years ago. Back then I found a couple Chinese restaurants in Rome, but that was it.Not so for … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
It's hard to believe it's been two years since this photo was taken. In it, Jake was about to fly off to Israel for four months. I was more excited for him than worried about being away from him for a semester.It was good training because in less than three months, he will be … [Read more...]
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