We have been in vivid contact with Cathy, the soul of Hollywood hates me , her brilliant blog. And she has started this series about song ly...

Yes, it's a fox. We met him/her a few days ago in the Esterel park nearby, perhaps one klick from the house. The picture was taken ...

Heavy rains washed a lot of debris into the sea this morning---the stream ends up in the left corner, next to the marina---and you can s...

We were at such a low, we considered joining the ranks of tasteful bloggers and post this picture for the Sunday Matinée... ...instea...

The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.   I thought I saw an ey...

The Dutch CVB, or whatever the alphabet soup, sends us a new European Insurance Card . Because we had discovered belatedly in the ER of the ...

And the mandatory fragment from the Green Eyes? From Chapter 20 of course, My father and your father were fathers :   We're...

When yours truly arrived in Venice 25 years ago for a brief sojourn at the Business School, Massimo, his correspondent, picked him up at the...

Now (Chang's sister in the left foreground, green jacket) you

You've made it, you're wealthy now, and preferably American, because Americans are more likely to do it than other mortals. You'...

(0.5 million page views in one week. 10k likes. Where could that be?) Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo . Yes, it's ...

Cathy Ulrich writes on her famous blog Hollywood hates me : This morning, I saw a baby llama. At first, I was going to gloat about it, a...

The Mercedes ML 270 CDI Yes, we're doing some maintenance work on the house, a friend of Chang was flown in from Korea to help us....

We've been discussing this with Glenn and others since a while: the American Right, we argued, is still fighting the issues of the 1861 ...

You've probably seen this, on Amazon, the opening lines of a book description, next to the image of the book cover with a Read more lin...

And while we are at it, here's a fitting fragment from the Green Eyes , Ch. 27: I'll charge 100 dollars but am willing to ne...