June 22, 2014 2 LA FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE IN LOURMARIN The great part of staying in a maison village–home in the village–is that you are in the thick of [...]
June 2, 2014 3 LOOKING FOR LAVENDER IN THE LUBERON The Luberon’s lavender season usually begins around the end of June and extends into August when harvesting [...]
May 24, 2014 11 BOUILLABAISSE, ROSÉ, AND RECIPES FOR THE ART OF LIVING IN PROVENCE Today’s post is coordinated with my friend David’s current Cocoa & Lavender post. David and I [...]
April 6, 2014 8 THE LITTLE PRINCE RETURNS TO NEW YORK Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, “Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?” And you’ll see how [...]
March 30, 2014 12 NEW SHOW AT CARRIERES DE LUMIERES: BE ENVELOPED BY THE MUSIC, MOVEMENT, GLITTER, AND BRIGHT COLORS OF ARTIST GUSTAV KLIMT What does a town do with a vast web of stone quarries with a “Closed” sign on every door? The folks in [...]
January 5, 2014 7 THE KERFUFFLE ABOUT SAYING ‘BON APPÉTIT’ At some point, midway through the procession of holiday dinners at our home this year, the subject of ‘bon [...]
December 30, 2013 13 A CUP OF TEA FROM PALAIS DES THÉS Part three of a three-part series about what you may find in Provence after the “big supper” (otherwise [...]
November 11, 2013 10 FAIRE LA BISE “Ah, the stress of meeting a French person,” an American friend once said to me. Remembering fondly her [...]
October 6, 2013 13 ANOTHER REASON TO VISIT SAINT-TROPEZ IN OCTOBER: LES VOILES DE SAINT-TROPEZ I was settling into the chair at my desk earlier this week, fully prepared to wax enthusiastically in this [...]
September 22, 2013 6 50 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF ÉDITH PIAF, A TRIBUTE TO HER PACKS NEW YORK’S BEACON THEATRE Throughout the concert, there were film clips of Piaf in concert, including on the Ed Sullivan Show [...]