2017 was a different type of year for us. Our travels this year, were prioritized around visiting our parents and sons in the U.S. ~ not once, but twice. Of course we managed to sneak in some short stops en…
Lost and found ~ travel sketches
One of the downsides (and blessings) of a nomadic life, is that one cannot hoard stuff. Detaching from material possessions is a prerequisite for a successful nomadic life. Even though we have several times dramatically thinned out our earthly…
Green Global Wreck ~ The French Resistance 2.0 ~ May 2017
Unexpectedly, but very fittingly, the country that brought the Western world the philosophical under-pinning of Democracy, after the ancient Greeks of course, France – became last night the country that also reminds us all that the slide toward a nativist,…
I am an immigrant too ~ Ben
The eruption of overt expression of anti-immigrant feelings that the new US President has heralded is inviting some of us to reckon with our own distinct immigrant stories. For all of my life, I have thought of myself as a…
Paris by day…
A night time walk in Paris
First, Mozart requiem in the St Germain area complete with the Versailles choir. Listen and watch here: http://youtu.be/W6JO6mjg5GM
Paris – First play, then work
Bullet train from Paris to Rotterdam … 3 hours! (This trip used to take about 9 hours on the regular train…) Paris is of course, Ben’s “hometown”. He grew up and went to school in Paris until he moved to…
IMPACT2: Paris conference on impact investing.
We are here for IMPACT2, which is the first conference on impact finance and impact investing in France. SOCAP in San Francisco (August 2011) yielded one of our key investors — Groupe SOS, based in Paris. Led by a charismatic…