Cocktails + desserts + dreams in the new year

En route to Paris and excited to have you with me for new discoveries: flavors, friends, and more!

Hello! Bonjour!

And happiest new year, of course.

I’m writing from NYC en route to Paris and, between turning the page on last year and getting ready for this year’s first Paris sojourn, I’m a little (more) ditzy (than I usually am). You’d think that after 25+ (!!!) years of dividing my life between America and France, I’d do this easily. But nope. I’m still hauling too much stuff across the ocean (in both directions), still forgetting stuff in one place or the other and still packing books I’ll never get to and notebooks I’ll never open. The paper stuff is the equivalent of my security blankets. It does kind of what “Bunny” does. Bunny’s been my travel pal for a few years now. She was bought in a hurry when we discovered that Gemma, then about a year old, had come to Paris without her Bobooshy, her pet name for her pet snuggle-bunny. I was so relieved when I found the same stuffy at a nearby store. I ran home with it, gave it to Gemma and was shocked when she tossed it to the floor and…