It’s All Maya!

97 years ago today, on April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and the rest is history!  For 97 year-old Millvina Dean, she, too, was in the midst of all the chaos that happened that fateful night. Millvina has no recollection of the events that took place for the simple reason, she was only 9 […]

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Maya Muses: Billy over at Billy’s Lines of Gibberish wrote an interesting piece about why French people manage to stay thin despite all the rich food they eat and it reminded me of an article I wrote two years ago when everyone was talking about the book, French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano, so I decided […]

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All the food blogs on Paris seem to be talking about the Hidden Kitchen which is one of many underground private restaurants around the world.  The one that most Paris bloggers are writing about has been operating for just under two years by a couple from Seattle, Laura and Braden.
The idea is you cook an upscale 10 course […]

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When I started reading Tatiana de Rosnay’s book Sarah’s Key, it brought back so many memories of the time when I was working on Steven Spielberg’s, The Shoah Project.  Back in the mid-nineties I was fortunate enough to be a part of a film crew in Paris that video-taped testimonies of Holocaust victims who recounted […]

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I started reading a book called The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond at the same time that little Haleigh Cummings from Satsuma, Florida went missing.  The novel is about a young photographer, Abby Mason, engaged to be married to a great guy.  He lives with his beautiful young daughter, Emma, who is six.  In a […]

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After all the rumors and all the speculations that have abounded since the end of the show, I looked back at the Final Rose ceremony and have come to the conclusion that this was all a hoax.  When you know that this whole thing was a setup, you realize there were no real tears of […]

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This is the perfect example of why reality TV is anything but!  For all the fans of the Bachelor and the Bachelorette series, it’s the day after and you now realize that you’ve been screwed!
Reality Steve back in January has been saying that the surprise ending to the show would be exactly as he predicted!  Rumors were […]

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Maya Muses: I was on the phone with a friend from Paris who asked me when we were planning on going back, (Patrick and I go back and forth every year to Paris) and I told her this year I didn’t know.  “I have several doctor appointments scheduled,” I said…..and then we got to talking […]

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When I first arrived in Paris back in 1971 one of the things that surprised me most was how the French continuously spoke about WWII as though it had happened yesterday. Gee, I would say to myself, it happened 25-30 years ago, let it rest! I was nineteen at the time.
Being part of the “Baby […]

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For all of you Slumdog fans, don’t get on my case just because I’m not on the bandwagon with everyone else!  Yesterday Patrick and I went to see Slumdog Millionaire.  After reading all the wonderful things written about this film, I was confident that we would not be disappointed, and disappointed we weren’t, but I can’t […]

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