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When People Don’t Support Your Dreams

4 March 2012
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I still vividly remember waiting outside her office. Somehow I’d gotten the idea that getting my masters in France was my next big move but I didn’t know how to get from Pennsylvania to Paris. I’d asked one of my university advisors who referred me to an old professor I’d had when I’d just begun [...]

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Meeting David Lebovitz in Paris

23 October 2011
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I once followed David Lebovitz through Paris on a culinary adventure. To be a bit more precise, I should say followed in his footsteps, but that is the pleasure of seeking out a professional pastry chef’s recommendations, of which there are plenty in his delightfully honest book, The Sweet Life in Paris. After a day [...]

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Romance with Rimbaud

14 February 2011
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Arthur Rimbaud is by far one of my favorite French poets. I’m not only drawn to his poetry, but also by my own desire to understand how someone so young and so talented could abandon poetry all together after less than five years writing. I’m sure he spoke little of his life as a poet, [...]

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Matisse and Baudelaire

22 November 2010
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Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux; Retiens les griffes de ta patte, Et laisse-moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux; Mêlés de métal et d’agate. Many artists have personalized the iconic poems by Baudelaire. Published just three years after the birth of Henri Matisse, Matisse would have grown up well aware of the controversy [...]

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Five French Books

12 November 2010
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Yesterday I was invited, along with a friend of mine, to bike around Provence for the day. Having longed to take advantage of the great outdoors that surrounds me in the area, I agreed to tag along without a second thought. We packed up the bikes and headed out on our first venture into the [...]

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