Paris, France "Art is never finished. Only abandoned." - Leonardo Da Vinci Following up on a post I did in August , Dyi...

Went to the Louvre today. My favorite pieces were two unfinished sculptures of slaves abandoned by Michelangelo, beautiful work but a grim ...

Art brut :  Art by psychiatric patients, prisoners, and children according to Jean Dubuffet who coined the term. Low art. Outsider art . ...

A crow woke me this morning. Unwilling to open my eyes, I lay in bed trying to sort out where I was. Crows, lots of them, live in nearby Mon...

Gotta go.

I'm in a tailspin. We return to the States next Tuesday and are jamming and cramming in all that we can of what's left on the table....

PARIS STREET SCENES Woman and flowers by Quai du Valmy Homeless guys watching TV under bridge over the Seine. Mimes along Qu...

The SpokenWordParis open poetry mic at Au Chat Noir last Monday was really excellent. I'm always an outsider at these things but I rea...

I'm leaving in a few minutes for Au Chat Noir for the Spoken Word Paris open mic. It just occurred to me that tonight, combined with t...

We finally saw the Paris everyone comes to see because yesterday was free day at the Louvre. It was jammed. The queue into the pyramid was a...

Last night outside my window.

Forgive me if the French titles annoy you. I'm not trying to be chic. I was too lazy to study any French before we left the US, so this ...

Red couch on rue Caulaincourt

The very pink lamp in Paris

Once again, no measuring cups or spoons. Our London flat didn't have them either but we assumed Greg and Shareen just didn't cook at...

Fond farewells in Tooting Bec. Minerva, Ellie, Monkey Dude & Swami in Tooting Bec We've come to regret bringing bikes on t...