Lynne Kiesling I am outta here, headed on a week’s vacation to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. No computer, no cell phone reception, so no LK KP. Mike will soldier on here while I’m gone. But please keep talking! I love seeing the conversation that has started. TTFN!
Lynne Kiesling I am in Portland, Oregon, in advance of a meeting with some colleagues from Bonneville and the Pacific Northwest National Lab on a project (more on that as it develops). This is the fourth time I’ve gotten to come to Portland; every time it’s been for work. I really like it. I spent …
Lynne Kiesling After flying home from Paris on Monday, I am convinced that the worthless labyrinth that is Charles de Gaulle airport is part of a deliberate French strategy to remove any separation anxiety in those tourists who are unhappy to be leaving France. By the time we got through security, I was downright thrilled …
Lynne Kiesling Today the KP Spouse, the KP Dad and I are flying home from Paris, so this the the content du jour … a fitting glimpse of our weekend activities. I know that the flowers will not yet be out in Chicago, so I will be sad to leave behind scenes like this one …
Lynne Kiesling Back in Paris after three days in Grenoble working with co-authors C?line and Dean on a very fun experimental project. Grenoble is beautifully situated in a valley between three mountain ranges, and we had a blast. The KP Spouse got to be Nature Boy and do some hiking while we worked, and we …
Lynne Kiesling As a hostess gift I took a box of incredible Patrick Roger on the Boulevard St. Germain. This is some of the most amazing chocolate I have ever had in my life (and, as a chocolate connoisseur who lives in the hometown of Vosges Haut Chocolat and consumes it on a regular basis). …
Lynne Kiesling I visited old friends in Hamburg over the weekend. On Sunday morning we went down to the Fischmarkt, the traditional old fish market in the harbor. Hamburg has a long history of prosperity from the fishing industry and from shipping; it was notably one of the cities with merchant associations most prosperously involved …
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Lynne Kiesling Ooooooh! If only I were better organized. I am going to visit dear friends in Hamburg this weekend, but if I had paid a lick of attention I would have chosen to be in Paris on Sunday for the kickoff of the 103rd Paris-Roubaix, one of the classic bicycle races in all the …
Lynne Kiesling While browsing last evening after dinner I found this interesting discussion at The Morning News about “the French paradox”, largely sparked by the recent publication of Mireille Guiliano’s book French Women Don’t Get Fat. It’s essentially a panel discussion about differences between French and American eating, fitness, and social habits as they involve …
Lynne Kiesling At the south end of the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris there are three stretches of grass. As you would expect with the Cartesian rationality symmetry inherent in French landscaping, the larger rectangle of grass faces the exact middle of the Palace. The two slightly narrower rectangles are the same length as the middle …
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