a Postcard from breezy Paris
Hi friend, I’m sitting on a bench on Canal St Martin, enjoying the soft breeze and the yellow shadows cast by flickering streetlights. Someone is blasting...
a Postcard from sunny Barcelona
Hi friend, I’m on a long-distance train from Paris to Barcelona. We’ve just pulled back into Perpignan to change tracks, to get around a technical issue. I...
a Postcard from the coast of Brazil
Hi friend, Happy new year. It’s the first weekend of 2024 and I’m glad to re-connect with you. How are you starting the year? I cherish this season for its...
a post-typhoon Postcard from Yatsugatake
Hello friend, I’m listening to the wild twists and turns of the furin (lit. wind bell) hanging on our balcony as Typhoon No 7 passes over Japan’s main...
a Postcard from Malaysia Truly Asia
Hi friend, I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing to you from Ipoh, a former mining town a few hours north of Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has glorious limestone...
a Postcard from the Galicia coastline
Hi friend, A second postcard in the same month! No more recipes though, that was a rare find. I hope you're doing well, and maybe even starting to make plans...
a Postcard about money, from rainy Paris
Hi friend, What kind of week are you having? I'm home in Paris, where the pitter patter of rain has let up. It's probably time for spring cleaning, to help...
a Postcard from Budapest
Hello friend, I’m on a plane waiting to leave Budapest, sitting in the lethargy of yet another sliver of time that will melt into the cracks opened by union...
a Postcard from Paris (which is not dangerous, despite the news)
Hi friend, It’s been a while since I’ve managed to reach out — how are you? I’m home in Paris, and have been since late January, quietly puttering around my...
a Postcard from the year's end in Tokyo
Hello friend, I’m at a hair salon in Tokyo, where my stylist is giving me instructions on how to blow dry my hair. He’s not a fan of how I’ve been doing it,...
a Postcard from the other side of Mt Fuji
Hi friend, I hope you’re staying cool in the summer heat. I’m at the AQ house at the foothills of the Yatsugatake Mountains, which has become quite house-...
a lakeside Postcard from Japan
Hello friend, I’m at Kawaguchi-ko, one of the lakes which formed and re-formed as Mount Fuji erupted every couple thousand years since 2 million years ago....
a Postcard from home in Paris
Hello friend, I’m sitting quietly at home, just back from a 60km bike ride up to Chantilly. It has not been a good couple of days for Japan. I’ve been...
a Postcard from the Hungarian-Croatian border
Hello friend, I’m on a highway bus from Budapest to Zagreb, crammed with sweaty passengers. Croatia is slated to become part of the Schengen Area but for...
a Postcard from the Basque coast
Hello friend, I’m cycling down the coast of Basque Country this week, downing a cortado and cheese tortilla at a bar each morning (second breakfast!) and...
a Postcard from Paris on a Sunday afternoon
Hello friend, I hope you’re having a great weekend. It's been pointed out to me that postcards have photos, and that it was reasonable to expect one...
a Postcard from south of the Dolomites
Hello friend, I’m writing to you on my way to Bolzano in Italy, so north that it’s “practically Austria” according to Italian friends. I complicated a tricky...
a Postcard from Paris in spring-mode
Hello friend, I hope you’re doing well. Spring has arrived in Paris and hey, it’s the sun. All of the benches in my neighborhood seem to be occupied by...
a Postcard in an envelope, this time
Hello friend, I hope you had a smooth entry into the new year. Is there a sense of new-ness still, in February? I think mine is gone now, having given way to...
a Postcard from Paris, between blue and gray skies
Hello friend, I'm writing to re-connect, in hopes that you may be moved to shoot back a few lines or a photo or two, to share what's on your mind these days....
a Postcard from Paris, after flurries in the sunshine
Hello friend, In Japanese, "my boom" (mai boo-mu) means something you’re hooked on at the moment. Something trending, but between me, myself and I. It might...
a postcard delivery
Hello friend, This is my first newletter, the first Postcard, and it exists because I’ve wrestled to the ground the egoism of sending what’s essentially a...