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C'est la Vie
In September 1999, my husband of 25 years was diagnosed with lung cancer. He did not smoke. He died January
4, 2000 and has been dead ever since.
Talk about a bad way to end the millennium.
Not knowing what
else to do with myself, I moved to Paris. I meant to stay for the first year of my widowhood, but ended up staying many years.
In fact, I just got back. Along the way, I took notes and filled journal after journal. These journals make up the content
for a series of three memoirs:
C'est la Vie, the story of my first year
as a widow newly arrived in Paris. It was published in 2005 by Viking and Penguin and has just come out in a Kindle edition
for Amazon;
Merci, Madame, the story of my first serious love interest
after my husband's death, my life in Provence; a story that asks to define middle aged love -- which I am working on now and
then
Remember the Alamo, my journey back to my childhood home after 40
years elsewhere and questions issues of merged family, aging parents and college romance.
With the help of Sarah
Lahey, Editorial Director of Born to Shop, I continue to work on Born to Shop books in between chapters of my memoirs. I hope
you'll join my travels - emotional as well as physical.
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