How I found myself in a crack den

OR: was taken by my  host  to simply pick up his scooter from a friend’s apartment. Because of your guest’s mild nervousness at being in a city where she doesn’t speak the language and is completely at the mercy of a man she barely knows (hot Frenchie), it’s not a funny joke to phone ahead […]

The b*tch killers of Rue de Meaux

I think I’m witnessing the disposal of a body, on a balcony across the road.  I can’t see the body, but I know it’s there from the lifting and grunting and dragging from the two men stooped over something quite obviously heavy.  A body.  My delightful host has said nothing to quell this suspicion, in […]

If life has taught me

one thing over the last three years, it’s to be thankful for everything and to say thank you every day, for even the smallest things.  It is important to quite literally, voice ‘thank you‘ in your head, because I believe if you do this, the Universe takes care of you. Today I have said thank […]

Paris bound

My brain is already in the French capital………  (oui, oui, porquoi, mais où est le canard avec le chapeau vert?) – see?! Bag(s) packed, yes lady maintenance done and everything in good order, yes knock-out Saturday night ensemble, yes a Paris apartment, a man, a moped and two cases of champagne waiting for me on the […]

Something profound

…..is this life, this one, intense life we lead, the deepest ocean with fathomless depths, we find ourselves adrift on.   And as we, the piece of dead, dried husk from a palm or the solitary, leaf, fallen from the tree at the water’s edge……………. ONLY JOKING!!! I’M GOING TO PARIS TOMORROW!!!!!  Whoop! that is all.