It’s this weird thing that my thoroughly continental childhood had a slight Asian flavor to it, although it’s not something I generally...

I do enjoy pulling the celebrity-style vintage photos from my family vault to share with you guys. These are from a photo shoot my mother...

The items my performer parents accumulated in their long careers sometimes travel down to me in the form of mysterious poster tubes. I...

I grew up in a talented family that holds the idea that talent runs in a family as a form of destiny. My grandfather, Roger, was a cold...

One of my fellow opera nerds made a joke by saying, “Meet you at Maxim’s” and I was transported to Art Nouveau Paris. Only, I could hear...

My paternal great-grandfather was a rakish fellow from near Brussels, Belgium. The bit of family lore we do know about him is that he was...

The paternal grandfather and his family owned a factory outside of Paris and he and his siblings traveled the world selling their...

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Governor’s Island, New York City hosted a vintage French carnival this summer. I rode a  Vélocipèdes and took in the sights and sounds...

Great aunt Marthe and the thoroughly modern controversy As part of the research for my memoir I’ve been in contact with family members...

The French embraced jazz music very early. It may have been that there was a direct pipeline from the  cradle of New Orleans to the...

My diva mother cavorting around Paris in the 1970s. You can hear her singing a duet with Jean-Claude Calon in the link below. The images...