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Sacre Coeur Fireworks – Monmartre Harvest Festival / Fête des Vendanges...
Sacre Coeur Fireworks at Monmartre Harvest Festival (Paris 2012) The weekend of October 13-14 sees the annual celebration of the Harvest Festival (or Fête des Vendages) in Montmartre. Each year the...
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Night in the Louvre (a photo post)
As a follow up to my flash fiction piece “The Sleep Seller“, I’m posting some pictures I took at the Louvre one evening. I’ll be posting my next flash fiction story in a few days. Until then… Louvre...
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Skinned, Alive (Flash Fiction)
In another time and another place lives a man who was born a unique case, for he had no flesh on his face nor anyplace else on his frame. Worse than thin skinned and bearing no shield against the...
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Heaven Noël (Christmas in Paris)
The derelict’s loose fitting clothes accentuated his scrawny frame and were as stained and patchwork as his scraggly beard. The brisk wind swept him like refuse down the sidewalks of Paris, with his...
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Paris Snowfall (Parc des Buttes Chaumont, January 2013: A Photo Post)
The weekend of January 18-20 will go down as one of the biggest snowfalls in Paris in recent memory. I walked through the Parc des Buttes Chaumont today (Sunday, January 20, 2013) and came away with...
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Door Ways (Flash Fiction)
The best way to find something is not to look for it. On that day, Eddy wasn’t looking for trouble. He was walking past the Louvre when he ran into the door that waited in an archway beside the...
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Keith Haring at the Centquatre (a photo post)
Untitled (1985) Photos from what I like to call “Keith Haring‘s other expo”. Haring’s show at the Musée d’Art moderne (or MAM, Museum of Modern Art) is (deservedly) getting a lot of attention, but not...
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Paris has green eyes (a prose poem for the Promenade plantée – Paris)
Promenade Plantée / Viaduc des Arts (Paris) Paris Has Green Eyes Paris has eyes greener than the absinthe green of sweetened dreams, deeper than the Guimard green of Metro scenes and clearer than the...
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Cinema Paradiso (a photo post)
Today I visited the exhibition Cinema Paradiso at the Grand Palais and took these shots to give you an idea of what’s going on there. There is, for example, a working drive-in, complete with cars. The...
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Place de la République (a photo post, June 16, 2013 @Paris)
Today was the official inauguration of the new Place de le République, after a year and a half of renovations. I went there for you and came away with these. Statue de la République – Place de la...
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Dayiwul Lirlmim (a dreaming story)
“Dayiwul Lirlmim” by Lena Nyadbi The Barramundi was the most beautiful fish in the river. Her scales were large and bright and she beamed proudly as they glistened in the sunlight trickling though the...
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Back Burn (Flash Fiction)
Under a white hot sun, the young man towering over her daughter yelled at the child until his face burned fire-engine red. Viviane stood too stunned to act as the flames of this stranger’s anger...
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Beaugrenelle (a photo post)
I was fortunate enough to score an invitation to the inauguration of Paris’s latest upscale mall, Beaugrenelle last night (October 22, 2013). These are some of the shots I came away with…...
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Ghosts of a Chance (Photo post of the abandoned town outside Paris)
Withering away in Paris’s shadow, a deserted burg lingers like the scent of melancholy elegance floating from a pressed flower… Goussainville (the vieux village) is a town about 12 miles north of...
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Champs Elysées Holiday Lights 2013 (a photo post)
A few nights ago I took my annual stroll down the “plus belle avenue du monde / most beautiful avenue in the world” to take in the lights. Here’s what the Champs Elysées looks like this holiday season!...
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Église Saint-Séverin Church (Photo post)
The Saint-Séverin Church on the edge of Paris’s Latin Quarter is a beautiful example of what illuminates the City of Light. These photos are from my post about the miracles associated with this...
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The Human Zoo (a prose poem from Paris)
The Human Zoo I saw the man there, every day. He came to the Ménagerie in his tight gray suit with a packed lunch and sat on the bench that faced the elephant’s enclosure. Whatever the weather, Monday...
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Louvre Pyramid / La Pyramide du Louvre (Photo post)
Last night I published a photo of the Pyramide du Louvre at night over at my Paris by Cell Phone blog, and as it attracted some very kind attention, I thought I might post some of the other photos...
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Human Zoo / Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale (Photo post)
Esplanade du Dinh / Dinh Esplanade Once upon a time, people were imported to France from the colonies and put on display in Paris’s Parc de Vincennes. Porte Chinoise / Chinese Gate The year was 1907,...
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Gone with the tide (a prose poem from Paris)
Gone with the tide They rely on our fear, be we will not hide our eyes. Instead, we will look up and stare them down until they see we are not blind. They thrive on our apathy, but we will not throw...
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