Who knew? Spies read.

In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.

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.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.

Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports.

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

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

Whatever the unknown in Europe, it had to be better than the known in a small town, where truth was hidden behind smiles, pleasantries, and an abundance of stretch lace at weddings. Whatever, the yet-to-be-written truth about her own life, it seemed certain to be waiting elsewhere on a blank page, somewhere people made no attempt to predict the future based upon a person's past. Quote from: A Summer Abroad, Mrs. Duchesney's First Real Mysteryc. 2013 Peggy Kopman-Owens

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

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?