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It was Moving Day on Thursday in Paris. From my first 5+ years in the historic center of this French capital of loveliness where history has shined its weighty light, where America's Founding Fathers tread on cobblestone rues, drank champagne and signed treaties--the old country giving aid to birth the new world--to a fresh start in a hot neighborhood (ssh!) that everyone says is the real Paris, the 20th.
I loved my old neighborhood as you can tell from my podcast on my Home page. I left kicking and screaming--but am digging the new neighborhood already. It definitely feels different, maybe more fluid. What would Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson think of the lives of Americans in Paris these days? What will I discover here? For one thing, Philip Starck's new trendy hotel: Mama Shelter.
When my children were little babykins, they loved this movie I rented for them over and over. So did I. Moving Day propels the action in this family's story just as it has recently in mine:
---Beth Arnold in Paris
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