2012 - Week Three, Day 6

PROFITEROLES AND GATEAU AU CHOCOLATE
they were so delicious, I ate them before I remembered to take their photo!

2012 - Week Three, Day 5

BISTEK ET FRITES
super yummy Christmas dinner

Beginning again does not mean we have made an error.

It is the heart of practice, not a deviation from it.

2012 - Week Three, Day 4

NORWEGIAN WAFFLES ON FRENCH TV

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words all being there,

written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature, 1980

2012 - Week Two, Day 7

LET THEM EAT CHOCOLATE CAKE!

Intention is everything.

2012 - Week Two, Day 4

Pain Femme
Who won't want to buy their baguette or croissants
from such a cute bread girl every day?

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness,

if it’s the right unhappiness.

FREEDOM A NOVEL by Jonanthan Franzen

2012 - Week Two...Day 3

PASTRY HEAVEN
We sapiens are the only animals that look each other in the eye
while eating without getting violent.
At least most of the time.
Adam Gopnik’s “The Table Comes First”

2012 - Week Two, Day 2

PASTRIES IN PARIS
Oh la la!

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

– Dorothy Parker, interview in Paris Review, 1956

2012 - Week Two, Day 1

HOLIDAY YUMMIES AT LAURENT BAKERY

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature,

to stop speech when words become superfluous.

 Ingrid Bergman

2012 - Week One...Day 7

LOCAL BREAD AND PASTRY SHOP
LAURENT

2012 - WEEK ONE, DAY SIX

1ST CAPPUCCINO AT OUR FAVORITE CAFE LE CEPAGE
...only to drink before noon

2012 - WEEK ONE...DAY 4

CINO DE MAYO
Authentic Mexican food in Long Beach, CA

Last Blogs of 2011

THE BEER HUNTER IN LA QUINTA
the night before we left for Paris