
Dispatches from a GenXer writer in Paris. Plus observations, tips, and resources for anyone dreaming about traveling to or living in France.
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| Issues | 97 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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The last time I loved summer was 1981.
I was at summer camp somewhere in Maryland, surrounded by chunky kids in ill-fitting terrycloth shorts, taming their frizzy hair with Finesse. For the first time in my 11-year-old life I kinda, sorta...
Quiet Paris hotels, the best Madeleine I’ve eaten, and the next Good Vintage Salon.
Bonjour mes amis,
I’m Sacha, a writer, GenXer, Francophile, and creator of a Good Vintage, which I launched in 2023. This Substack is not about wine (although I do love a glass now and then). It’s about midlife, reinvention, and France—the...
The petite elephants who live upstairs have been shipped off somewhere for the summer. The usual bowling-alley commotion has been mercifully reduced to the sound of their father clomping around at all hours.
Does he do calisthenics in clog...
“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.”
—Adriana, Midnight in Paris
Where did everyone go? Oh, I know! Les vacances, that glorious time of year when everyone escapes...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Paris-based writer, GenXer, and community builder. My work has appeared in Fodor’s, The Independent, The Washington Post, Glamour, and more.
Singer-Songwriter | Comedy Writer | At the "no fucks to give" part of my life. Finding humor in middle age, ex-pat life in France, and reflections on being married to (and divorced from) a megalomaniacal narcissist. But it's funny.
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