It has been exactly one year since France went into the first COVID-19 lockdown. One year since everything in Paris closed and we were all ordered to stay at home. One year of lockdowns, curfews, and mask mandates. In some ways, Macron’s speech announcing the lockdown feels like yesterday. And in other ways, it feels …

This past week two things happened. One, I was reminded that we are less than a month away from the one year anniversary of when Paris first went into lockdown. Or, as I like to call it, the start of COVID living. Two, I realized that we are still over a month away from a …

Well, that certainly was a year. I’m actually not entirely sure what to say about 2020 at this point. It’s been a painful, frustrating, and devastating year for so many people. Jobs have been lost, entire industries have been shuttered, livelihoods have been gutted. And millions of people around the world have lost loved ones …

As you may or may not have heard, France is back in full lockdown. Measures to control COVID-19 had been growing increasingly strict since the end of the summer, but with the cases rising, a lockdown seemed inevitable. Everyone was eager to avoid it, but the dreaded second wave is truly upon us. Apparently 2020 …

This past weekend I attended the European Heritage Days, known as Journées Européennes du Patrimoine in France. This annual tradition began in 1984 with what was then called the Day of the Open Doors. Cultural institutions, monuments, and buildings all over France that were normally closed to the public opened their doors and welcomed visitors …