Parler Paris Après-Midi
NEXT MEETING: June 8th, 2004 AND EVERY SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This
is your opportunity to meet every month, often with local professionals
who can answer your Working and Living in France questions. You
are invited to come for drinks and share your questions and comments
about what it takes to create a life here, own property and enjoy what
France has to offer. It is also an opportunity to network with other
Parler Paris readers.
Upstairs
at La Pierre du Marais
96, rue des Archives at the corner of rue de Bretagne, 75003 Paris
Métro Lines 9, 3 et 11, stations Temple, République or
Arts et Métiers
| This coming year's meetings... |
See past reports... October 28, 2003 |
SYNCHRONICITY
IN THE CITY OF LIGHT
MEETING OF MAY 11TH, 2004
(Photos do not necessarily match descriptions.)
Patricia Laplante-Collins asked to have this picture
taken of the two of us -- Francophile friends bringing together other
Francophiles for close to ten years. (That's me with all the teeth.)
We met through a poetry reading given by Cecilia Woloch (recent Paris
Poetry Workshop), that many years ago. Patricia is looking for a new
and more spacious apartment to hold her Sunday Paris Soirées,
should anyone have an idea for her.
Regular Barbara Owens surprised me this week
this week by discovering she had a long standing friendship with Cecilia
Woloch -- an old friend from Los Angeles. Thomas Pollard,
an actor and singer I recognized from days past at Sharon Morgan's Bojangles
Restaurant (now closed), where musicians and singers often performed
just for the love of their craft. Strangely, I met Sharon (now in Chicago)
because of a confusion with a friend of a friend named "Adrian
Lees" on the same day that she met Patricia Laplante Collins
who had a coffee date with me -- all this her first day in Paris oh
so many years ago. His friend, Harper Carter, a resident
of Toulouse and documentary filmmaker, dragged him along to Apr�s Midi
unknowing he would have so many friends here.
Erica
Bailey has combined her dream of living in Paris with a professional
dance career working in a cabaret called La Nouvelle Eve. Two
people felt they had met her before, but hadn't. Tomoko Yokomitsu,
a friend of regular Daniele Dupuis, turned out to also
be a friend of Thomas', too. Deborah Rozniewski, who
came to Thirza Vallois' walkof Literary Paris yesterday, has an "infraction"
with France and comes here at least once a year.
Carol
and Sidney Panzer, once members of Parler Parlor when it first
began, now have a pied-à-terre on boulevard Montparnasse and
come two to three months a year. Rick and Madeleine Novak just
want to be in a city alive with art, food and city scenes. They found
it here in Paris. Katherine Pendill, a one-time participant
in the Travel Writers Workshop, works for a Franco-American firm and
comes at least once a year to visit friends she met when she was living
and working here.
Tom
Regan was back -- he lives here half-time in his rue Saint-Paul
apartment. Michael Goll is a regular at Parler Parlor,
is finding his French roots and pursuing a pipe dream to live and work
in Paris. David Devereaux and his wife, Kathleen,
a novelist, came for their 25th anniversary, but come every two or three
years just to enjoy Paris. Francine Collins is here
until July...just to relax. Thom Keel, a PhD student
at Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture, is here
teaching American students marketing and entrepreneurship at an international
study abroad program.
Katherine
Whipple only stayed a few moments, but brought her friend Françoise,
a French woman with a home in the south, looking for an apartment in
Paris. Bill Ballard stopped by -- even though he's
staying now in the 16th, he still feels the Marais is home and frequents
Au Petit Trou de Bretagne just down the street. Leonard Pitt,
author of Paris Disparu, who,
by coincidence, spoke two weeks ago at Patricia's Paris Soirées,
ran off to make his date with the Bibliothèque, but returned
for the bag he left sporting his library card. Leonard is sadly not
pictured.
