We can expect more news from the President of France Tuesday night (on most TV stations at 8 p.m. France time) about our next phase of lockdown and how that…

I had planned to head south for Thanksgiving like I do most years. Then, confinement happened again. Now it seems like all I do is buy train tickets and cancel…

Saturday was a Zoom-a-thon day with six solid hours parked on my desk chair in front of the computer. First with the 55th annual “Bloom Where You’re Planted” and following…

The Gardener of Eden It was the new “abnormal,” as one of my close friends called it—holding our monthly coffee gathering, Après-Midi, on Zoom instead of live and in-person upstairs…

I’ve watched more CNN in the last six days than perhaps in several years. I found the counting of the votes for Joe Biden or Donald Trump fascinating as the…

By the time you read this, election day in the U.S. will be over. That doesn’t mean we necessarily know the outcome. We’ve been in confinement now since Saturday. In…

While President Emmanuel Macron was delivering his speech Wednesday night with the news of the new confinement, I got online to SNCF and booked my return train to Paris for…

A birthday break is what Patty Sadauskas and I needed…badly. And where better to take it than France? We deliberated over where and how, with too many choices, but wanted…

Today marks my 68th year on the planet. I’m not telling you this to encourage birthday wishes, as we all have them (thank goodness), and I have no expectations that…

Zoom has changed our lives. Until a few months ago, we didn’t even know it existed. And now, we’re not sure how we’d live without it. I remember when the…