Ocean

I haven't an ounce of energy to put up a post. Not an ounce. You want detail? Okay. tomorrow, but not today.

It has been, to the day, two and a half years since I started Ocean . I have bragged incessantly about my commitment to daily posting. That ...

The winds are blowing through, reminding me very much of the warm afternoons in the Languedoc. Restless winds, moving clouds around, alterna...

I never quite got into the 4th of July. Rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air – I understand patriotism, but feel that those particular i...

I’ll go to Sicily with you if you hike the Rockies with me. Four months ago, I appear to have heard only the first six words of that sentenc...

I went to live karaoke last night. No, not as opposed to dead karaoke. Live, in that the accompaniment was live. And here’s a truth to mull ...

If you want raspberries, come pick mine. I have a bumper crop. I cannot cope. Thank you. As for those which I wont pick – freeze them. Actua...

Watching the numbers on the digital clock, I noted that time moves slower if there is no hour hand making its way from one, to two, to three...

Day is night, night is day, sleep comes and goes, hours are a jumble of mismatched moments. Someone called me the other night – I had been f...

Entre deux. Between two: between mountains and sea (like Pierrerue), between two worlds (like me). Madison’s Saturday market. It’s my first ...

In a Paris morning, one last sip, one final taste. Ready? Let’s go. Except I am not ready. I fight back the overwhelming desire to,...

Well, it happened that I missed my train from Bordeaux to Paris. It was like this: I get up before 6. I finish packing, tightly, oh so tig...

Not that we are looking to make Madison a mega tourist destination. Certainly that would have its drawbacks. I already regard our farmers ma...

I am only 45 minutes by car from Biarritz and even less minutes away from St Jean de Luz, a major fishing town on the Atlantic. I’ve read al...

It dawned on me that I have become physically lazy lately. For, faced in the past weeks with fantastic hiking opportunities, I wasn’t taking...