April 8, 2026
Painting and Audience
For my first decade as a painter, I did not show my paintings to anyone other than my husband. He …
Mireille’s Musings
January 22, 2026
Musing on Turning 2026
I have been feeling half my age lately…physically, psychologically, and it is a wonder. I’ll take it. As proof positive, …
September 4, 2025
La Rentrée
“No season’s passing is mourned as summer’s is.” In France, this reawakening has a name: la rentrée.
January 27, 2025
Painting and Dropping Anchor
I’ve been thinking about how music is an anchor in my and many others’ lives…especially around year-end holidays. It is …
January 8, 2024
Musing & Prevailing
Chocolate. Finishing a meal with a piece of chocolate makes all the difference, don’t you think? And chocolate cures many …
January 4, 2023
Smiles Redux
The upside of travel is prodigious, and the surprises can put a smile on one’s face for days and weeks.
July 13, 2022
Paris: Hot Times in the Old Town Summer 2022
Now that people have Paris in their travel plans again, it seems time for a few useful updated travel experience …
June 24, 2022
Provence: Eight or Nine Wise Words 2022
If Easter then Memorial Day 2022, marked the return of Americans and tourists to Paris après le Covid (even though …
January 6, 2022
Ac cent tchu ate
A few days before Christmas I was sitting in a funky hair salon I fancy on the Via dei Coronari …
January 13, 2021
Bonjour, Bonne Année!
We like to “count our blessing instead of sheep” this time of year, and we all are blessed in some …