An appreciation for diverse forms of artistic expression is not only the beginning of enlightenment, but is also the bedrock of inclusive civilization.

In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?

I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.

Friendships outlive marriages and family. Friendships can make a life wonderful or wasted, worth sacrificing or worth saving. In the Paris-based 7-book Apricot Tree House Mystery Series, Jamie Litton and Ben Foulof choose to save each other because they have learned that friendship is that fragile thread tethering all of us between Heaven and Earth.