For anyone who has visit the Louvre in Paris, you know how easy it is to become completely and utterly lost. While there are tricks to maintaining your bearings within the Louvre (look out the window to see the Seine or the courtyard), massive crowds, overwhelming exhibits and interior {more}
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Bonjour Bread Festival
Bread. In Paris. Mais oui! Especially the baguette. Yummy, crunchy-exterior, and soft air-filled morsels of yeasty goodness made by artisans using only four ingredients–flour, yeast, salt, and water. Now, imagine a whole pile of artisans together, under one giant tent filled with ovens, surrounded by flour, linens, rising dough {more}
Book Review: Book End Babes Confessions
I received an oh-so-lovely review of Bonjour 40 from a fun blog called Book End Babes. In “Confessions of a Closet Francophile,” Heather Dearly admits her unending desire for Paris, and chats about her armchair review of my 40th birthday adventures in the city. Back in October, her fellow-blogger {more}
First Fridays: Bonjour “Paris in Color”
This month’s First Friday artist sticks with the Bonjour Paris theme: Nichole Robertson is another writer, photographer and Parisian-lover. She has a delightful book out called Paris in Color. Yes, Paris is definitely photograph-able. But Nichole takes it to a lovely work of art level by gathering her images {more}
Bonjour40 Awards and Anniversary
Ahhh Paris. Can it be? Yes. It was a year ago today that I was looking out my apartment over Paris having just arrived. A year ago, I spent a month of wandering the streets not feeling 40. I met Bandit and Dorothée. I fell in love with Ted {more}
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Authors. Designers. Photographers. All artists. They rely on composition to unite their elements to draw in the viewer or reader. They bring their own thought and expression to create a new image. A different statement. A unique view. Here we’ll explore “compositions” in postings of fewer than 250 words. An image or link will join it as we explore the works and worlds of writing, photography and design.
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