Here in Paris, my official dance classes for school don’t begin until October 10th (have I mentioned that I love the French academic calendar??), and I am blissfully free to enjoy my new city. However, in a predictable and thoroughly delicious series of events, I have begun to actually take the shape of all the [...]
In the always classy and cutting-edge comedy film Stepbrothers, Brennen, played by Will Ferrell, stares down his new stepbrother Dale (John C. Reilly) until it provokes Dale into offering up a salty remark— “Why don’t you take a picture? It’ll last longer.” When Dale’s father rebukes him, asking him why he has to be so [...]
Bonjour from Paris! I am finally settling into la vie Parisienne. In the past week, there have been an array of technical difficulties, to be sure… including, but not limited to, a ripped suitcase, no internet, no french cell phone, a broken Blackberry, a pickpocketing incident, bank card fiascos, etc. However, all of that has [...]
de·ni·alNoun/diˈnīəl/ 1. The action of declaring something to be untrue: “she shook her head in denial“. … It is the night before my long-awaited trip to Paris; my flight is mere hours away, and somehow the reality of this journey has yet to permeate my exhausted brain. In an effort to make this blog a [...]