It’s All Maya!

I was lucky enough to spend almost two months with my mom earlier this year.  We spent a lot of time watching her soaps, playing card games and just hanging out together.  It was still too cold for her to go out and work in her garden or else that’s where I would surely have […]

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Mom and I having breakfast at Barnes & Noble. Green tea and cinnamon scones.
It was difficult saying goodbye to my mom after spending a month and a half with her.  Call me lucky because that truly is what I am to have spent that time with her!  Each morning I would wake up and […]

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When you hear about all the violence in schools nowadays, you wonder where this world is headed.  At least, I do!  You can’t turn on the news and not hear about teen gangs, or school shootings, or a suicide due to someone being bullied until a poor kid takes his/her own life.

Well this isn’t about […]

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2012 went out beautifully and 2013 came in just as lovely. Patrick and I declined invitations to ring in the new year among friends. Instead we opted to stay home and have a quiet dinner just the two of us.

To work up an appetite, we walked around le Bon Marché and admired the windows […]

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Maya Muses:  Merry Christmas everyone!  I can’t believe another year has come and gone.  Where does the time go?  So much to write about and so little time to write.  Here’s hoping that your Christmas is being spent with loved ones and your holidays are filled with joy and happiness!

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I was knee high to a grasshopper* at the time, but I still remember that day so long ago!!!  “Love, love me do.  You know I love you….”  Lyrics that any kid could remember and who wanted to be cool like a teenager.  I wasn’t a teenager yet and I definitely wasn’t cool, but I […]

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Maya Muses:  It’s been almost 39 years that my dad passed away, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t think of him often.  I do!  I was lucky to have the most wonderful dad in the world and I miss him very much!  He gave me a love for music and a love for literature […]

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Looking at the Seine on the Pont Alexandre III.
There are times when even after 40 years of living in Paris off and on (mostly on) I still love the beauty of Paris and what it has to offer as though I were seeing the city for the very first time.  Last night was one of […]

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I know my mom would have loved it if I was there celebrating Mother’s Day with her today.  Mom knew that my older sister, Josie, was going to be there with my younger brother, Bob, but she didn’t know that my two youngest siblings, Rosie and Bam, were also going to surprise her by flying […]

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Yes, on April 9th I turned 4 years old!  I’m a little more than a toddler!!!  Well, to be more precise my blog is. I hate to say that I’ve been a little neglectful this past year, but I just can’t seem to find the time to write as I use to or as much […]

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