Paris

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Romance, poetry and the arts.

Paris is for romantics. Poets, honeymooners and a cafe or two keep the lights on here.

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	Poems from the Attic by Margaret A. · Paris/Seine Original poems about seasons, small towns and growing older, from a retired librarian.
	Our Honeymoon in Paris (June 1999) by Kim & Jason B. · Paris/Montmartre A day-by-day account of a week in Paris on a budget, with tips for first-timers.
	Le Petit Cafe BUSINESS Paris/Boulevard A French-style cafe in a small American downtown: crepes, quiche, espresso and Sunday brunch.
	Love Letters from the War by Transcribed by Susan Marchand · Paris/Rive Letters between her grandparents, 1943-45, transcribed with her grandmother's permission.
	The Sonnet Workshop by Professor Emeritus Leonard Ashby · Paris/Salon How a sonnet is built, with a walk through Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and four original sonnets.
	Ten Years of Wedding Toasts by Best man for hire? No, just Bob Greig · Paris/Garret How to give a wedding toast that doesn't embarrass anyone, from a man who has given eleven.
	The French Conversation Table by Madame Claire Duval · Paris/Seine A weekly French conversation hour at the library: who comes, how it works and phrases for beginners.
	Wedding Calligraphy by Hand BUSINESS Paris/Salon Hand-lettered invitations, envelopes and place cards in copperplate and italic hands.
	Left Bank, Right Heart JOURNAL by Claire Lundberg · Paris/Rive An American au pair in Paris writes about homesickness, a love affair ending and the eclipse.
	Letters from the Rue Mouffetard JOURNAL by Simone Wisniewski · Paris/Garret A French war bride, widowed in Ohio, goes home to Paris for the first time in twenty years.
	Melancolie by Celeste, 17 · Paris/Montmartre A seventeen-year-old's dark little page of poems, French words and a very black background.
	Roses for Diana by Lynette Palko · Paris/Garret Two years after Paris: an Ohio nurse remembers Diana, Princess of Wales, the hands she held, and her work against landmines.
	Lyman's Limericks by Rick Lyman · Paris/Seine Clean limericks by a retired Vermont pharmacist: the drugstore, the house, the computer, a reader's best, and towns nobody can rhyme.
	One Trip a Year by Ingrid Solvang · Paris/Garret A Des Moines court reporter saves all year for two weeks somewhere she can't understand a word. Essays from Lisbon, Cape Breton and Galway.
	The Back Room Poets by Miriam Estabrook · Paris/Montmartre A poetry circle that began in a Providence bookstore's back room. Enter our Poem of the Month contest; this month's theme is Keys.
	Notes Inside the Piano - A Sweet Romance Serial by Darla Jean Sowell · Paris/Salon A sweet romance posted on the 1st and 15th: a piano teacher, a tuner she's never met, and the note he left.
	For Craig by Dawn Hull · Paris/Montmartre My husband Craig died playing church-league basketball in February. He was twenty-six. Our story, our house, and why your family should know about HCM.
	Fifteen Years and a Waterfall by David and Charlotte Andreasen · Paris/Rive In 1984 we honeymooned at a motel by the Cleveland airport. For our fifteenth we finally did Niagara Falls. Dave's captions, Char's corrections.
	The Daily Planet Morgue - Lois & Clark Fan Fiction by Kristine Orme · Paris/Salon Lois & Clark went off the air two years ago, but the FoLCs keep writing. My stories, G and PG, mostly WAFF. Comments welcome!
	He Said, She Said: Thirty-Five Years of the Same Stories by Theodore and Della Olivo · Paris/Rive We've been married thirty-five years and still don't agree on how any of it happened. His version, her version, and you decide.
	Fifty-Five Anniversaries by Eleanor Pfeifer · Paris/Rive Frank and I married in June 1942, two weeks before he left for the Army. We had fifty-five anniversaries. Here is every one.
	white space: poems on web pages by Maureen Kroeger · Paris/Garret html ignores your line breaks. poems need them. how to keep stanzas, indents and white space on a web page, with five of my own.
	Douglas & Holly: 2,500 Miles of E-mail by Douglas Watkins · Paris/Seine We met in a mystery readers' newsgroup and wrote every day for a year. How it happened, and why I'm moving to Portland.
	The Second Draft Society - A Writers' Critique Group by Jacqueline Bryant · Paris/Garret Six writers, every other Tuesday since 1994, in a library meeting room in Tulsa. How we critique, what we're writing, and pages from two of us.
	Two Alphabets - poems by Nadia by Nadia, 16 · Paris/Montmartre poems about my teta's kitchen, my name, snow, and living between Arabic and English. with a little glossary so you know the words.
	Redwall Abbey Library (by Mario) by Mario, 12 · Paris/Garret I have read all eleven Redwall books and some of them three times! My rankings, the best heroes and villains, the feasts, and how I'm going to be a writer just like Brian Jacques.
	Our Bridges of Madison County Trip by Belinda Hausman · Paris/Seine We read the book, we saw the movie twice, and in October we drove to Iowa to see the bridges for ourselves. Part 1: Winterset, the Roseman Bridge and the Covered Bridge Festival. Part 2 coming soon!
	Tips of the Slung: A Spoonerism Parlor by Esperanza Nickelson · Paris/Salon A spoonerism swaps the first sounds of two words, and the results can be lovely or lewd. (Not here.) My own collection, sorted by subject, the readers' best, and a little about the Reverend Spooner.

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