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A Greek Sabbatical
This winter, I needed a quiet place to read and write about gruesome death. (My next book is about a murder, the guillotine & the dark side of Provence, and the first draft is due, panic of...
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Atelier de Visu
This summer, I returned to Marseille in order to conduct interviews with police officers and lawyers involved in the 1974 investigation into the Elisabeth Bousquet murder. (Bousquet was brutally...
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An Upstate Wedding
This picture captures the prelude to one of the most intensely emotional and beautiful moments of my life. It was the culmination of weeks of work and years of friendship. It was, if I may be so bold,...
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The Majesty of Halloween
So let met tell you about my favourite holiday …. Halloween is the most buoyant and joyful of holidays. No suffocating religious affiliations (despite attempts to link it to All Saints’ Day), no...
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Home & Garden
My house on December 27th, 2007. The space in front of the wall is a public park where old people sit in the daytime and teenagers sometimes flirt and drink on Friday nights. There are also the...
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Baku
Nothing is more curious than receiving an invitation to a country you need a dictionary to spell and an atlas to locate. Such a wonder befell me early in 2008 when I heard word of a reunion of...
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Thoughts after a very long swim
Marseille has quite the lore, some of it true, some of it exaggerated, some of it complete fiction. Take Château d’If, the prison island off the city’s coast that served as the Alcatraz of France for...
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On the road with Robert Badinter
This fall, my Abolition project reached its climax: accompanying Robert Badinter, or as I sometimes like to call him, ‘The Greatest Living French Man’, on a speaking tour in New York, Houston, and...
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The Seventeen Tomato Experiment
The Tomato Grid !!! (See Full Size at Bottom of Post) A How it all Beg How it all Began … I thought this would be a relatively unambitious gardening year . . . I would try a few new vegetables –...
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Waystation : A Brazilian Invigoration
For those who believe in silver linings and happy endings and, yes, even destiny, let me share a little story with you. In 2009, I was invited to appear at the Tarrafa Literária festival in Santos,...
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