I can just see Gustave Le Bon peering out his apartment window at the angry violent crowds below. It was 1871 and the terrifying loud crowds of the Paris Commune were storming the streets of Paris like stark raving savages, ravaging hell-bent destruction. If alive today, he would definitely experience a Deja Vue witnessing the …
Internet Fueled Racism And Violence Through The Eyes Of Gustave Le Bon Read More »
You can never get enough joy, nor love, nor beauty in life! Unfortunately, these exquisite moments that brings sweetness to living rarely just fly into your lap, so we have to seek them out. Paris offers such an abundance of beautiful art that it can be hard to choose which place to go to next, …
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I realise that saints, sausages and red wines don’t go together, but they just happened to have been my new travel discoveries and delights from my latest trip through the French Jura mountains and the upper Rhone valley of Switzerland. Each one was certainly meritorious in their own right, and anyways I always seek spiritual …
Saint Maurice, Superb Artisanal Sausages, And A Sublime Red Wine Read More »
I had to hang on in trying to stand in the neck-deep hot bubbles fiercely surging and erupting around my head. The strong force of the thermal waters pummeled my torso rocking me to one side to the other, making it difficult to keep my face above water. Overhead loomed a creamy white full moon …
Reflections On Life And Death Submerged In Bubbles In The Swiss Alps Read More »
For all of my beautiful single readers, especially if you believe in angels, this post is for you! You already know that dreaded Saint Valentine’s day is approaching, which can be quite vexing, even painful, for those without love companions. Instead of telling you to be your own valentine and buy yourself some flowers or …
The three American train heroes, who foiled a terrorist attack on a speeding Thalys trains bound to Paris, are now brand new French citizens. Anthony Sadler, Alex Skarlatos and Spencer Stone who were rewarded the highest French award of the Legion de Honneur requested to become French citizens. Several months after requesting French citizenship, Emmanuel …
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At the end of this year, it will be almost 20 years of having the privilege of spending ordinary Sundays in this beautiful place! Paris is a place I never could forget and a place I can never get enough of either. Each day I like to reflect upon my blessings and gratitudes, and being …
Ordinary Sundays In Paris In Extraordinary Places Read More »
I have always maintained that truth is stranger than fiction. In this case, bread laws in France imposed on French bakers take the cake again! No pun intended! Bread, like French wine and cheeses, is very heavily regulated here. Perhaps that is one reason why the French can rightfully boast about their extraordinary traditional breads, …
Les Galettes des Rois are one of the most sumptuous and delicious of all French pastries that I can’t resist. The sweet aroma of this multilayered orgy of cream filled crunch and flakiness fills the air of every pastry shop in France to the degree that I can smell it baking walking in the streets. …
Enough is enough! With all of the French financial aid available to families here, the protesting gilets jaunes complaints are getting really old and lack validity! I am sick of the continued violent protests each Saturday by these “gilets jaunes”. They got the hated gasoline tax suspended, but they continue to protest like insatiable spoiled …
French Financial Aid To Families That Will Make You Envious Read More »
Happy Quantum Leaps! 2019 is with us. I prefer to take a quantum look at the “new year”, rather than in a linear way. Life on planet earth continues without showing any difference in being “new.” Or does it? Without being a killjoy, the thrill of numbers changing on a calendar just isn’t there …
Happy Quantum Leaps! A Quantum Look At The “New Year” Read More »
This is a Christmas message to those of us in pain this holiday season. It is often the most painful time of the year for us who are already depressed, in grief, in a painful circumstances of loss or rejection, and feeling alone. I do not have to know your name to want to comfort …