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...