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What Do You Do Once You Get There?
So, with PASSING LOVE coming out in less than 50 days, Paris is on my mind. When I travel, I love to explore without purpose. Paris is a place where no one knows (and sometimes doesn’t care) who I am … Continue reading
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Why, Oh Why, Do I Love Paris?
Who cares? Simple enough—I do. Isn’t it funny how a thing, an event, or a place settles into your subconscious without your ever intending it to be there? That’s what happened to me with Paris. Though I won’t call my … Continue reading
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It’s the Simple Things
I wrote a Trip Advisor review today for Richard Nahem (Eye Prefer Paris), a man who turned his passion into his business. He lives and gives tours in Paris. I don’t know why I love that wonderful city so much, … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, gratitude, Paris, Passing Love, scones, Trip Advisor, writing
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Hooray! Hooray! Today is my day. Searching for Tina Turner officially hits bookstores today. Kind of anti-climatic? Not! I’ve already been in one store and seen the poster and my book, my book, on the shelf next to authors more … Continue reading
Sacred Moments
I crave immediate gratification. I never wait for the movie to start to eat my popcorn. I rub the squares on my daily Lotto ticket before the store owner hands me my change. I take my ice cream straight from the grocery … Continue reading
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Is That You?
I love this quote, almost an explanation of writing, from James Baldwin’s 1955 Notes of a Native Son, “One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from the experience the last drop, … Continue reading
My Old Typewriter
I found my old typewriter the other day. It’s a Royal—gray with green keys. I don’t remember the exact Christmas or birthday that my parents gave to me, but it was when I was a teenager. Continue reading
Get on the bus . . .
My sister reminded me the other day to think of life as a bus ride, and events or people (friends and enemies) as passengers . . . Continue reading
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Tagged '50s, bus ride, risk, Searching for Tina Turner, writing
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