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Halloween and Terror in Paris – 2020

October 31, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 4 Comments

There is Halloween in Paris Owing to American influence, there are shops with costumes and decorations. In our neighborhood, we haven’t seen kids go door-to-door soliciting candy, though I buy some every year hoping that they’ll catch on. Spooky Halloween decorations cover the common areas of our apartment building. On the streets, they are already […]

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Filed Under: History, Living Tagged With: charlie hebdo, covid, terrorism

Bloomsday in Paris

September 26, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 28 Comments

James Joyce's Ulysses

Bloomsday in Paris and the Origins of the Lilac Bloomsday Run In 1979, my mother-in-law Beth Shaw ran her first Lilac Bloomsday Run in Spokane, Washington. My first time was in 1988. This year is my 27th year of competing in the race. My wife Brenda has done it a couple more times than I. […]

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Bartholdi and his Statue of Liberty

May 16, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 6 Comments

Diorama created by Bartoldi to show measuring and shaping of the plaster forms

The dictionary sums up what most of us know about Bartholdi and his Statue of Liberty. This brief description of a statue by a man we’ve never heard of conveys nothing of the quest and the ideas that produced this phenomenal work of art. The Statue of Liberty: a statue at the entrance to New York […]

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Filed Under: History, Sight Seeing

“The Third Man” needed help from Peoria

April 13, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 10 Comments

The Third Man

With current restrictions in Paris on how and why we can leave our apartment, we’ve had to make adjustments in shopping routines, exercise routines, and certainly social routines. For instance, a couple times each week, my wife and I watch a movie together, sort of a date night for people in lockdown. Rather than choosing […]

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Filed Under: History, Living, Travel Outside Paris

Need help with sleep – read Balzac

April 8, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 10 Comments

Both in France and in the United States, we seem to be in the worst of the COVID-19 problem now. There are shortages of equipment, rising numbers of deaths and infected, new outbreaks, and no quick fix on the horizon. We continue to be inundated with non-stop news, most of it bad. I’ve discovered that […]

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Filed Under: History, Sight Seeing

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

March 23, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 22 Comments

Paris Marché Saxe

Much of the news each day is devoted to describing problems with a new coronavirus, COVID-19, which has been spreading over the world since the beginning of 2020. Typically people try to ignore it, hoping it will go away. Then suddenly it sweeps through in a terrifying manner, and there is panic. Governments are left […]

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