Welcome to My Paris Journal : Day 9 I fed my family-of-five three meals for under 25 euros. Ontonio and I had coffee on the balcony. Then we left for the market while the kids were still asleep. The workers were fixing the front of the bistro Ontonio had coffee last week. On our way,…
Welcome to My Parisian Journal: Day 8 I think I got high off the fumes of weed and second-hand smoked at least five cigarettes. I’ve also tracked almost 80,000 steps in a week... 30,000 more than my usual goal in the States. While there are things to admire about French culture, there are always…
Zuri and I went on a date. This is our first vacation together since she left for Spain and spent a semester in Tampa for college. I can’t believe she is 19 years- old and she is so in tune with her emotions, expectations, and has an extremely classy way of expressing herself. On this…
Call us locals 😜 We made espresso at the apartment. We held on to the same pole on the train:-)Sometimes being brave is taking a train in a foreign country to places you’ve never been. Today, we were brave!!! We crossed the Seine to capture this photo. We took not one, but TWO trains to…
A. BOMB. IN. PARIS. The news came as I stirred blueberries, white wine, and sugar into a syrup for the bread pudding baking in the oven. Just last night, Zahara joined me in the kitchen. She broke the baguette into pieces as I mixed the custard. Now, she is sitting in the living room, announcing…
You know that saying: “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey?” I lived that maxim today. We left the apartment for Monument à la République, however, the three-mile journey unveiled treasures I did not foresee. At the Jardin Villemin, a group of young students, dressed in white, practiced their gold instruments, giving a sense that…