Well, we’ve tipped over into December and my duty to make some art every day is officially over. I did complete a daily creative act – mainly scribblings and jibblings in my Moleskine accordion notebook. I will not stop because November has passed. I find this the best way to pass time otherwise spent sighing […]
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Xavier Says: How to Be Rich in a Recession
Xavier shares how to feel rich in a recession.
Art Every Day Month, Week One
I took the plunge and joined in Leah Piken Kolidas’ Art Every Day Month challenge. It’s pretty self-explanatory, and I’ve been using the structure to make sure I do something in my Moleskine Japanese album every day. I’ll post the week’s adventures once per week, since the processing and posting of the art is a whole project […]
Xavier Says: love what you love
A mysterious Frenchman infiltrates Cynthia’s Paris apartment with important intel on how to tap your joie de vivre. This marks the 100th video from Original Impulse. Time to celebrate!
A Paris Sunday
The Free Write Fling ends tomorrow, and I’m happy to have written one that I actually like, here in the eleventh hour. Enjoy my Paris Sunday. Come in… Sunday in Paris makes me feel more like an outsider, not in the good observer way but in a lonely way. I think of French women making Sunday dinner […]
A Paris Minute: Luxembourg Gardens
Paris Minute: Velib Bike Love
A Paris Minute: Paris Plage
The beach, in Paris? Mais oui!
Following in Sylvia’s Footsteps to Paris
In 1919, young American Sylvia Beach moved to Paris and opened a bookshop, Shakespeare and Company. She’d been to Europe with her family as a girl and as a young adult, yearned to live in Paris. When I read about this pioneer in Noel Riley Fitch’s Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, I found a female […]