Rip Van Winkle

Posted: September 20, 2018 at 10:01 pm

As the story goes, Rip Van Winkle fell asleep for 20 years and awoke to discover he missed the American Revolution. I felt like Rip last weekend when I visited…

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Bluebeard

Posted: August 2, 2018 at 11:09 pm

That evening, I sat in my favorite chair in la Pistache, the one beside the best reading light. I underlined incomprehensible phrases in La Provence in preparation for coffee with…

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He Who Hesitates Is Flattened

Posted: January 14, 2018 at 4:16 pm

I figured out the secret of success in life while learning how to cross the street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Let me explain. I’ve circumnavigated a Renault Super-Cinq…

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Le Tour de Rants

Posted: July 22, 2017 at 2:01 pm

As I watched le Tour de France race through Marseille today, I felt a couple of rants coming on. But first a bit of background. In person, I have seen stages…

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My Mid-Life Crisis

Posted: September 25, 2015 at 9:55 am

  “Maybe you’re just going through a mid-life crisis.” It was February 2012. Having just taken a bite of my smoked duck breast and gizzards, I started choking. I sat in…

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