We got a bit of money changed at the airport, the rate wasn’t that good so we got only enough exchanged to pay for the bus to get us into the middle of Paris and another bit of money for…
YOUR LUCKY DAY SCAM
FARMERS COMING INTO PARIS FOR EXPO
THE FARMERS ON THE CHAPMPS-ELYSEE Our first day in Paris we took a walk to the Champs-Elysee and happened onto one of the biggest expositions I have ever attended. There was lots of activity with tucks and vegetables and stands…
FIRST FULL DAY IN PARIS
The first full day in Paris, with a beautiful blue sky and a bright sun that paints deep shadows along the building facades; it’s early for Parisians on this Saturday morning, nothing is open and we are starving. So we…
A LONE MUTE SWAN
Van Cortlandt Park is an amazing 1,146 acres that stretches out across the northern edge of the Bronx. I head for this area every chance I get. Sometimes I walk along one of the trails or I sit on a…
SOCCER BALL FOR DEVON
I wrote this following piece five years ago. I tried to get it published in a quilt magazine, but it was rejected. I never posted it on my blog, who knows why. Well, here it is years later. Devon is…
A Haunting, apartment building story, ghost, haunted, margaret mendel, short story by margaret mendel, snow, spirit, winter
A HAUNTING
A HAUNTING Most people think of houses when they think of something haunted. They think of dark creaky old wooden stairways, or closed, locked rooms that groan and whisper in desolate homes overgrown with weeds and twisted vines. These are…