Suzanne Falter's Blog, page 32

Paris Journal 1: Sticker Shock and the Bliss of Wandering

It is the end of my first week of my experiment of living in Paris. My goal, since the age of 18, has been to live for two to three months a year in this city … the city I’ve always felt deepest in my heart. Can I really LIVE here … like a Parisian? […]

How to Listen to Your Soul (in Spite of Everything)

Here is how our mind controls us. I am sitting in a beautiful apartment on the Right Bank in Paris. I have all my needs well met. In the refrigerator is a bit of Brandade de Morue I will heat up for supper, with some fabulous sautéed cherry tomatoes and zucchini from yesterday with lots […]

Sometimes I Doubt My Path

I decide I’m not REALLY supposed to be doing what I’m doing. That Spirit isn’t actually guiding me — that I’m making all kinds of foolish decisions. But then the spirit of my late daughter, Teal, appears. “You are on the only path you can be on, for God’s sake,” she says. “Give yourself a […]

What It Feels Like to Live Your Dream

All of my life I’ve wanted to live in Paris. Not forever – just for a few months. In my imagination, I quickly develop a set of expat and French friends. I find ‘my’ arrondissement. After a morning of good writing, I make my way through cobbled streets to a small table where I sip […]

You are tender and dear

In Praise of Completion

I am a person who likes to rush ahead, leaving things pretty much done … but not always completely. Perhaps you know what I mean. Last night I had a dream in which I was waiting to exit a gas station behind a massive 18-wheeler. Slowly it navigated a right turn; there was much backing […]