Tag: Paris Project
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How to enjoy Parisian art museums
Art is best enjoyed over time. Seated. Quiet. Notebook and pen in hand. I’ve always been drawn to write l for as long as I can remember, even scribbling in a notebook alone in my room, “writing” if my moms asked me what I was doing. My kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Reitzel, was the first person in…
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The luxury of the metro
I expected to write every day in my journal or notebook from quaint Parisian cafes, pen in hand. Instead I’ve written mostly in the ‘in-between times’ on the metro. The metro is a meeting of peoples and cultures. Of phones ringing and people speaking in French, Hindi, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Italian, and Wolof. Some people…
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Parisian café vignettes
The view of Parisians’ lives that I have is largely a public one. I see Parisians bustle from one engagement to the next. The spill onto café sidewalks, coffee in one hand, cigarette in another. They squeeze onto the metro at rush hour and read their books. So much of their lives have to happen…
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Yoga classes in Paris
Missives from a rainy, Parisian Sunday Yesterday I went to a yoga class in French at Paris’ Modo Yoga. I’ve practiced yoga in the United States for 15 years now, but I had never taken a yoga class in French. How better to improve my French than to jump in with both feet and learn…
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10 changes I’ve seen in Paris in the last decade
8 years have passed since I studied abroad in France and since then so much has changed. Here are some changes I’ve noticed about Paris now vs. 2014. 1: You know what wasn’t popular when I lived here in 2014? Halloween and eating pumpkins! Every bakery and bank we walk into has a Halloween display…
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Getting sick + healing in Paris
Being sick is hard. Being sick in France is hard *in French*. It’s not glamorous, and it’s not cute but thankfully… it’s not COVID! When I first started feeling sick a couple days ago, as we Americans do, I defaulted to my usual solution: better living through chemistry. I popped out to my local pharmacy…
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What to do when you leave a belonging on your flight
Where: Charles de Gaulle airport; Originally written 10/13 I’ve been in Paris for two hours. Well, let me clarify, I’ve been in the Paris airport for two hours. I deplaned and navigated my way through customs in an hour. But, at baggage claim, I realized I had left my yoga mat on the plane. My…