I recently had a touching and somewhat poignant experience. For all of us who are alone (or for me anyway), we wonder what’s going to happen ‘later’ in life. If you’re alone, what if things go wrong, and you have no partner to protect you and share the experience with you? It’s a scary thought, and part of the musical chairs of life, where some of us wind up alone. You make a false move, make a bad decision » read more »
Archive for 2009
Fully Alive
Posted on May 29, 2009
If I’m going to keep you up to date on what’s happening in my life, I guess I have to put in the good and the bad, the happy and the sad. This has been a sad week for me. » read more »
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The Artparis Art Fair
Posted on May 21, 2009
I went to a very, very cool art fair here in Paris the other day. It’s called Artparis and happens once a year in spring. Like all art fairs, it’s a place for a variety of art dealers to show their wares in booths in a large hall of some kind. It was held in the beautiful old glass domed building called Le Grand Palais, where everything from art exhibits, to the Biennale antique fair, and fashion shows are held. The venue itself is spectacular and a beautiful setting for any show. » read more »
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My Favorite Paris Restaurants, Bars, and Tea Rooms
Posted on May 13, 2009
Some of you have written to ask me to tell you about where I go in Paris. Before I tell you my favorite restaurants, I have to make a ‘disclosure’ statement to you (true confessions?): I eat very little, and I don’t drink (alcohol) at all. (Great basis for restaurant and bar recommendations, huh??). My parents were of some very distant old school who had strange ideas about disciplining children. If I didn’t clean my plate and eat everything on it, » read more »
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Merci
Posted on May 8, 2009
I recently discovered something new when my daughter visited me in Paris. As the fashion editor of a magazine, she learns about all sorts of new places, designers, stores, and events, and often has to check them out for work. On one such venture, » read more »
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Paris Inspirations
Posted on April 30, 2009
When I came home to Paris this time, I looked around my computer office. I have several places I ‘hang out’ in my Paris apartment, a cozy little red sitting room full of hearts and art I love (it’s a small room, and also where I watch movies, read, or do needlepoint, it’s my ‘cozy spot’ next to my bedroom, and I have a room similar to it in San Francisco). I have a more grown up office, where I read serious papers, and do notes on things to work on when I go back to San Francisco. And I also have a tiny little cozy space off my kitchen where my computer is, which I only use for emails. And on the walls of my computer cubby hole I have framed sayings that I love which inspire me about how to live life. I am always finding sayings I love, and instead of trying to remember them, I frame them and put them on the walls, and look at them often. And I thought I’d share some of them with you here, » read more »
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7 Days in Paris, Not the Novel, the Real Life
Posted on April 28, 2009
Some of you have asked what my day is like in Paris. And like everyone else, all my days are different. I’ve been back in Paris for 3 days, (the time moves too quickly here, and I never have as much time here as I want, although I am here for half of the year, but the time speeds by too quickly whenever I’m here). » read more »
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Fashion Week in Paris
Posted on April 24, 2009
When my kids were small, I used to take all 5 of my daughters to the Haute Couture fashion shows in Paris, which were spectacular shows of beautiful clothes, all hand made and hand sewn, worn by gorgeous models in extraordinary venues. The shows were a major event twice a year, » read more »
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“Aaahhhh”…not “Ohhhhh”!
Posted on April 16, 2009
I was talking to a friend today, and remembered a silly story, that was a good reminder about life. » read more »
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Working on an Art Show
Posted on April 8, 2009
As I’ve mentioned before, I had an art gallery in San Francisco for four years. I absolutely loved it! We represented 22 mostly emerging artists, and showed contemporary work. It was located in San Francisco (steel gallery), and the artists we represented were local, and also from all over the United States, and from around the world. It was one of the happiest experiences of my life, » read more »
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