Yearly Archives: 2010

I woke up this morning to find a snow meringue on the table in my courtyard. It is a foot thick and slightly crisp on top, just like a good…

Amidst the cookie baking, present making, ribbon curling, mulled wine drinking, friend and family embracing of Christmas is an immutable tradition in our household. It comes to us from a…

The Christmas tree lights twinkle, the smell of spices perfumes the kitchen from yesterday’s baking, and a Christmas carol provides background. A pre-school breakfast by candlelight in the warmth of…

When I arrived home from marvelous Maine, Louviers was brittle with frost, the house an ice-box. Now that things have warmed up inside from the fireplace and Aga, and the…

Where I live, lobster continues to be a luxury. They are trapped off the Cotentin peninsula, and they arrive at the market in their star strewn indigo shells as prizes,…

I cannot stay away from this lovely place. Perhaps it's the introduction to Hassidic reggae, the site of a bald eagle too young for its white headdress, the pure glory…

Nuts on the run...I’ve been in the U.S. for the past five days. I arrived almost in the teeth of a storm but fortunately it veered East, and the plane…

The sultry heat of August occasioned an afternoon trip to the Normandy coast and the small town of Blonville-sur-Mer. There the beach is long, sandy, pristeenly white and not so…