Grandmother’s Tales
My paternal grandmother passed away 13 years ago at the age of 100. I was blessed to have spent a fair bit of my childhood in her company, where she’d regale me with fabulous tales of China, my grandfather whom I never met, of how my father was when he was a child like me, […]
Fool For A Cigarette
I keep saying that people don’t make a big enough deal about how much of an addiction smoking really is. Calling it a “habit” is really understating it, unless you were talking about a heroin “habit” or a cocaine “habit”. And while I’m sure there are people who’ve used weaning methods like nicotine gums, patches […]
Europe 2012: What The Doctor Ordered Me Not To Order
I’m back on my regular low-carb, low(er) fat diet, but my stomach had a really good holiday:
The Only Celebrity Sighting Worth Having
We had several celeb sightings and near-misses on our trip. Our traveling companion L found Kanye West blocking her view of some freshly launched merchandise at Colette; her husband S found himself gushing about some ‘famous French actress I forgot her name but she is very popular’ after dinner at Hélène Darroze; I cursed about […]