Chance Meetings and Enduring Friendship
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Chance Meetings and Enduring Friendship

I am still pondering the story about Dona and how to best present it. It is an interesting story about chance meetings and enduring friendship. But it also reminds me how dependent my life’s work has been about chance meetings and following the end of my nose. Very little of the work I have done in my life is the…
August 18, 2021Posted inFrance, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends, Travels, Uncategorized
The Nature of Obsession
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The Nature of Obsession

Stuart, I got an interesting email Friday evening. It came from my contact form on my website, meaning someone had actually looked at my site. Most of the emails I get from there are bogus. Auto bots out to sell me web services. But every now and then there is a real inquiry about something. In this case, a guy…
June 7, 2021Posted inCelebrations, France, Musings, Odds and Ends, Still Lifes, Uncategorized
More Poetic
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More Poetic

Connie, I recently received an email from a gentleman in France about a CD that had my photo on the cover. A photo of your hand with a rosary. He didn’t say much, just that he had found me. It prompted me to find the original print, since Getty no longer has it in their library. I couldn’t find a…
February 2, 2021Posted inFrance, Musings, Odds and Ends
The Perfect Drink
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The Perfect Drink

That’s a very cool story. Other than Carter’s Rome martini, I don’t really have any perfect drink memories/stories. I have a few funny ones like drinking vodka and schnapps with Russians, who frankly, would have drunk turpentine had it been placed in front of them. The drinks spark the memory of the moment. Beer with a Czech artist in Kadan.…
August 18, 2020Posted inCelebrations, France, Paris, Travels
Toast to the Good Ole Days
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Toast to the Good Ole Days

Ralph, I had read the reviews of the various machines. It seems the water rowers had the nice sound and pleasant experience. But changing resistance could only be done manually by adding or removing water. Ok, could live with that, but my main consideration was the seat distance from the ground. It had to be high enough for Carter to…
July 22, 2020Posted inFrance, Musings, Odds and Ends, Paris, Travels, Uncategorized