Middle-aged (wo)man in lycra
(Published by the Malay Mail Online 22 Dec 2014 & Maisons Laffitte Cyclo News Jan 2015) I was asked recently what drove a forty-something...
If walls could talk
(Published on 2 December 2014) I visited an extraordinary building in Paris recently where someone had taken the unusual step of asking...
Ten reasons to like Thanksgiving, more than Christmas
(Published in Malay Mail Online Thanksgiving, 27 November) I’m a big fan of Thanksgiving, so much so that we celebrated it last Saturday...
Lest We Forget
(Published in The Malay Mail on 17 November) Lively reminders of dark side of human nature and the fragility of peace are a good thing....
Less French bashing, more backslapping
(Published in The Malay Mail 10 November 2014) Enough of “le french bashing et le pessimisme” France’s Prime Minister declared last...
Le Suicide français
(Published in The Malay Mail 30 October) When Patrick Modiano learned this month he had won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature he asked...
Ebola outbreak in France: Not if, but when?
(Published in The Malay Mail 13 October) France could soon be facing its own homegrown Ebola cases as has happened in America and Spain,...
“Totalement Désarçonnés” — The best graffiti in town
“Totalement Désarçonnés” — The best graffiti in town Posted on October 9, 2014 by pennedinparis I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling...
France’s struggle with ISIS
We are in a state of shock over the beheading of a French tourist in Algeria on Wednesday. There is no doubt about it: ISIS has brought...
The problem with nudity, is that there is no problem
(Published by The Malay Mail on 12 September – censorship rules ironically prevented the photos from inclusion in the original article!)...
