This has definitely not been any way to run a blog!
I'm coming back to my blog after a very long absence. More than six month have passed since my last commentary. This has been due to a difficult year of distractions. My main excuse for bad attendance was the passing of my mother Eleanor. It is her photo that I've posted here with a sign that says, "I'd rather be in Paris". On the back she had written: "I'd rather be here sitting in my living room with Michael and Scott by my side- just talking and laughing." I would be forced to remain in Paris while the events to honor my mother back in the states unfolded. The updates on these events from home felt like odd dreams.
My mother was a strong woman. She would beat cancer twice in her lifetime. She was a great and loving woman that knew how to make people feel good about themselves, always with a wonderful sense of humor. Everyone that had any contact with her will miss her greatly.
Of course my one regrets will be that she never got to see Paris. There had always been too many things preventing her from making the trip. Most often her worries were related to her health. These kept her close to home. Still, she had been talking about this being the year to make her trip to Paris. I'm sorry that she wasn't in better health, or felt strong enough to make the visit earlier. I know that she would have loved it here. So often the photos and images that I took would be captured with her in my mind. I hope that she at least was able to visit the many photos that I would post of my Paris wanders. Sharing the pleasures of Paris with her was something that I so wanted to do. Now this Autumn I'm looking forward for my father to make the trip to my adopted city. My mother's passing has put the idea of a Paris visit into the minds of others in my family back home. I really hope that they are able to make the trip at some point in the very near future.
This year Paris had a very odd spring. A chill would fall over the city throughout the month of May. The city did not have the feeling of past summers experienced in recent years. Once August had arrived it felt as if autumn was already in the air. The month is already at an end with tomorrow bringing another September and another rentrée. I started this blog a year ago to celebrate living here for ten years. I'm looking forward posting more photos at this site, along with more frequent updates about life in Paris.
Thanks to all that have visited this barren blog over the past months to find things at a stand still.
