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I have spent the last four hours banging my head against the mainly intuitive and well-designed Blogger interface, but I don’t have much to show for it. Half of that time went into creation of a long posting about a … Continue reading →

On the ferry yesterday from St. Thomas to St. John, the sky put on a lavish welcome. Tweet

In a half-hour the Hilton Atlanta Airport’s automated wake-up computer will ring the phone in our room. That gives me enough time in the dark to shift The Chronicles to a new phase, toward blogging, away from traveloguing, although I … Continue reading →

The view out the window of my study tonight, back home in Denver. Tweet

The place looks fabulous. Francoise took very good care of our home while she was here and left lavender gifts in the bedroom, several new CDs in my study, and a supply of good books in French. Darlene and I … Continue reading →

Darlene stepping down a narrow street this afternoon in the old city of Mougins. Tweet

We took a bus to see the nearby old city of Mougins this afternoon, after packing most of the morning and putting things back where we found them in Francoise’s apartment. When I cleared the desk in her room five … Continue reading →

A train waits to depart the Toulouse station this afternoon. After a four-and-a-half-hour trip, our train pulled into Cannes this evening three minutes late. During the ride, I finished Lord Jim, Darlene read a mystery and slept, and Deb worked … Continue reading →

View from the visitor’s entrance at the cave at Niaux, south of Foix in the French Pyrenees, showing metal sculpture and overlook platform to the right. Tweet

When I first began work on a review of Clayton Eshleman’s Juniper Fuse in July, I imagined yesterday’s moment: my own view of Upper Paleolithic images drawn on a cave wall in France. I did not imagine how distracting the … Continue reading →