We are largely making this trip up as we go. With friends’ homes to visit and their helpful suggestions, there have been destinations. But it’s often the interstitium — the…
We drove south from Bourdeaux through the southern wine country, stopping at La Brède for a tour of the castle of Montesqueu, the political philosopher and judge who apparently chose…
I’d been butchering French for half a month before we arrived in Bordeaux for a one week stay and the bonus of attending morning classes at a language school. “Pardon…
Jean Prouvé’s Prefab Buildings
As timing would have it, we somehow escaped the incendiary maelstrom that descended on Northern California’s Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties in the early hours of…
We’ve been wandering the beautiful stone flower that is Paris for almost a week, ten miles a day, often without a destination, until our feet ache and we have to…
A few weekends ago, I retreated with my Cahootian conspirators to a house deep in the hills of Mendocino County. Four miles up a dirt road, a few miles off…
I must confess that I am sometimes at a loss when it comes to understanding the performance and conceptual aspects of contemporary art. Call me old fashioned but I wonder…