Author Archives: len

Peaches at this morning’s open-air Forville market in Cannes. Tweet

PEACHY IN CANNES Finally, after a week of cooing how cool Cannes can be if one is a sensitive poet/reviewer/observer of life, we get real with a foul mood, sulk through the fresh fruit, refuse to choose among twenty frigging … Continue reading →

Darlene doing a lunge with her trainer, Etienne, looking on. Tweet

Meanwhile, back at the health club named Soft, two blocks from the apartment, Darlene was having a great day. She is getting ready for an 11k road race on September 19th, and today is the first day she began to … Continue reading →

Three pastry chefs in Mougins. Tweet

In what turned out to be an excess of confidence, I assured Francoise’s friends Claude and Regine that, since they had taken us to the bus stop and shown us which bus to take, we would have no trouble finding … Continue reading →

Self-portrait at my usual table, Brasserie Carnot. Tweet

I am a sedentary tourist. My idea of world travel is to go a considerable distance from home and then not see anything that everyone says I should see. In Cannes, I am happy to work on my writing for … Continue reading →

Squeegee kids and the law. Tweet

Boulevard Carnot, Cannes Yesterday at the intersection where Boulevard Carnot delivers its heavy traffic into Place du 18 Juin, I saw two squeegee kids, no more than 15 years old, washing windshields of stopped cars, whether the drivers wanted the … Continue reading →