Le Pain Quotidien

rue Louis Gassin, Nice

More postcards with Toni. She ordered a cidre and I drank a cafe au lait.

Le Dauphin Vert

rue Princesse Caroline, Monaco

Toni and I stopped here to write some postcards. She ordered an espresso and I had a cafe creme. We were pleasantly surprised to find the prices similar to cafe in Grenoble.

Cafe Milburn

Place Verdun

It was warm and bright today. Nursing hangovers and colds, we sat in the park and then crawled to this cafe near the Prefecture after I vetoed a different one with smaller windows. Leena had a hot chocolate, Eve grabbed a petit cafe creme, and I had a grand cafe creme. Nisha sucked on a cough drop.

Coretta Scott King

I missed coverage of her funeral, but did enjoy reading this review of it in an email from my sister in California.

Very good speeches at Ms. King's memorial today... I don't know what order the speakers actually took, but our local news showed W first. The choir members were talking while he was speaking. He seemed pleased with his (ie. his speech writer's) words as if to say, "Follow that!"

Then Jimmy Carter spoke. And when he said, we only had to "look at the color of the victims' faces from Louisiana, ..." the choir woman behind him mouthed the word, "Wow."

Then Bill spoke with Hilary at his side.

Then Maya Angelo and she was out of this world. No text will do. You have to hear her. And see W looking uncomfortable in his seat behind her.

While looking for video links - I haven't found any yet - I discovered this quote from Dr. King describing his wife:

"I am convinced that if I had not had a wife with the fortitude, strength and calmness of Coretta, I could not have stood up amid the ordeals and tensions surrounding the Montgomery movement."

What game are we playing?

I was tagged by Monifa. At first I thought she was going to re-release me into the wild and monitor my migration patterns.

Then I visited her blog and realized I'm supposed to answer a few questions.

LISTS OF 3

Three books I can read over and over:

1) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien
2) The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
3) The Book of Jonah [from the Bible - Intentional or not, this book reads like comedy. The final line (Today's English Version) is a dry punchline.]

Three places I've lived:

1) Put-in-Bay, Ohio
2) Boston, Massachusetts
3) Grenoble, France

Three TV shows I love:

1) Golden Girls
2) Guiding Light
3) Lost

Three highly regarded and recommended TV shows that I've never watched a single minute of:

1) Desperate Housewives
2) The West Wing
3) The L Word

Three places I've vacationed:

1) Taiwan
2) Charleston, South Carolina
3) Scandinavia

Three of my favorite dishes:

1) Whatever Leena is cooking
2) Whatever Douglas is cooking
3) Cho's sushi

Three sites I visit daily:

1) www.nytimes.com
2) www.yahoo.com
3) www.iwon.com

Three places I would rather be right now:
1) Stuttgart, Germany (Douglas is there for work)
2) Morocco (I need a tan)
3) bed (I have a cold)

Three bloggers I am tagging:

1) nifamatic (tag backs are a bitch)
2) Ohio Girl
3) Random Thoughts

Le Tourquet

Avenue Alsace-Lorraine

After several months of bumping into each other in large groups and never having a satisfying conversation, Katy - the English English Assistant - and I shared two cappucinos at this pink cafe very popular among Grenoble's geriatric set. She told me all the dirt on les autres anglaises and wall climbing. I filled her in on the goings on with les petites filles chinoises folles and climbing the bastille.