It’s All Maya!

This is the first Christmas Patrick and I will spend in our apartment since returning to Paris.  In 2009 we packed up all our things and shipped them back to France, so that year we spent Christmas at my mom’s house in Pittsburgh.  Wonderful memories with Katarina, mom, and the rest of the family playing […]

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(Part One)

Aunt Dolores resting after a long trip.
Time passes so quickly and it’s already a week that my mom, sister and aunt were getting ready to return home after a whirlwind trip to France and Switzerland.  It was great having them here, but before you knew it, they were heading home and the apartment seemed […]

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Maya Muses:  I just received an email today that Matt Harding, from Where in the Hell is Matt, will not be dancing in Paris this time around, but he’ll be in Lyon on Saturday!  Too bad, if I had known ahead of time, I would have made an effort to be there to dance with […]

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I’m excited!!!  I just signed up to dance with Matt Harding and I’m hoping that he’ll come to Paris once again!  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s about Where in the Hell is Matt?  The three videos that he made around the world were fantastic and it’s worth putting on my blog […]

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Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris does have a point.  We have a habit of looking through rose colored glasses when we remember the past, but I have to admit there are a lot of beautiful changes that have taken place over the years.

When I first arrived in Paris forty years ago (yes, it’s been that […]

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So once again the Exodus happened during the first days of August and it’s a pleasure to explore Paris and the surrounding areas (except for the tourist attractions of course) with hardly anyone around.

Walking through the streets of Saint-Cloud in the middle of the day is like walking around a ghost town.

Shops are closed, there […]

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Tomorrow Patrick and I will go watch the final leg of the Tour de France, but definitely not on the Champs-Elysées!  Unless your idea is to see a sea of heads in front of you and colorful helmets zooming by, you’re better off going somewhere else in Paris to watch.
Maya Muses:  As usual Remi Gaillard […]

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Years ago, in the States, Patrick and I were going to have dinner at a friend’s place.  Dinner was at 6:30 so I was ready to jump into the shower around 6 p.m.  After all, who eats dinner at 6:30?  Having spent a good part of my life in Europe where dinner didn’t start before […]

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Part Two:
Honestly, when I wrote Part One I didn’t think it was going to take this long to write the second half of my story and you would think that three months later, I wouldn’t have anything to write about!  Afterall, five months is long enough to get things straightened out, right?  Well no, welcome […]

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Maya Muses:  Well it was a long and difficult hiatus, but well worth it!  The thing is, when I left Charleston behind with the alligators, I wasn’t planning on finding a crocodile on the Champs-Elysées of all places, but that’s exactly what I got the other morning!

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