Those who know me well are familiar with my passion for cafés that serve really good coffee and croissants. There has to be some trace of...

A couple of months before I landed in Paris, I spent a long weekend in Seattle where my nephew Harry and his girlfriend Tessa live. When...

Shortly after I arrived in Paris, Antoine called and invited me to spend Christmas with his – and whom I call my – family, in the...

Eventually it’s going to come out in my stories that I am very fussy about my hair. I am very humbly blessed with thick, healthy, wavy...

My introduction to Lydie, who is now my dearest Parisian angel, was through our mutual friend and Holistic Life Coaching instructor, Alan...

Years ago during my very first visit to Paris, Antoine took me to an extraordinary marche’ in Bastille. I was staying in a hotel at that...

Oui, yes. You’re going to need some intel on some of the people in my stories, since I mention them very casually as if you already know...

When I found what felt like my apartment in Paris, I booked the reservation. I was smitten when I saw the confirmation ~ 44 nights in...

La Vie en Magenta was originally divined when I landed in Paris, December 2022, to cook and write. On my way to France, I spent November...