I was hoping to find regular people as I got further south of Paris. And yes, it exceeded my expectations. This town, Sancerre, has not really been a tourist hotspot,…

I had to decide if rejuvenation was worth it. Actually for me and for Janet. All winter I saw her parked here at my friend’s house, looking sadly the worse…

Proper Shakespeare fans will know that John of Gaunt, the scheming ancestor of the Tudors… …was born here. I think that the old English spelling indicates how to pronounce the…

Nothing is as it seems–nor is it otherwise. Someone once told me the latter half of that phrase was a Zen koan. I can’t corroborate that. But after spending over…