I am looking forward to 2022 for many reasons. We should be able to travel again, walk the streets unmasked, and eat in restaurants. I could keep going but by now you will know all the other things I have been missing. Also, Borgen – The Castle will be back for a fourth season. Filming […]
The time has come to start building enthusiasm for the transition to post-Coronavirus life. I, for one, cannot wait to Zoom out of conference calls and zoom in to in-person meetings. We need to recapture all those little pleasures that we took for granted. My personal list of things that I miss from my routine […]
One year ago today I had made the decision to cut short our escape from winter. On March 13, we were flying back to Montreal from London, two weeks early. It was disappointing to lose those last weeks. We had tickets for the opera and the ballet. There was a plan to splurge at Core […]
There is a shortage of quality social and affordable housing in most Western nations. Based on pre Coronavirus statistics, there are 35,000 homeless Canadians on any given night. This does not account for the approximately 50,000 couch surfers. In Canada , over 235,000 individuals experience homelessness every year. 200,000 of these use homeless shelters. The […]
We had rented a cottage near St-Gilles in the Occitanie region of the south of France. Our flights there and back were through Charles-de-Gaulle , so we decided to break up our trip with four days in Paris before going south. We took another four days on the way back. We had spent time in […]
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill Can We Tell the Difference between Fact, Fiction, and Opinion? Are we discriminating users of information? Do we recognize that many all-news broadcasters report little fact, some fiction, but mostly they spread opinion? Can we […]
Mysterious and Magical
Montepulciano
Pierre-Louis Duval, a Parisian butcher, created the “bouillon” concept in 1855. His inspiration came from a soup vendor, M. Boulanger. Legend has it that Boulanger went on to open the first restaurant in Paris in 1765. To feed market hall workers, Duval would make a single meat dish to be served with a soup or […]
Beautifully simple food, great atmosphere