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In the Great Escape we’ll tell you about one great idea to give you a much-deserved break—a suggestion of how you can take time for yourself, after taking care of everybody else. Got a “great escape” secret of your own you’re willing to share with our readers? Comment here, or email lisab@patch.com. If we pick your idea to feature, we’ll give you a shout-out in the next column.When you dream of Paris, do you think of eating chocolate croissants from a local patisserie, seeing jaw-dropping art at the Picasso museum or scaling the heights of the Eiffel Tower? What about lesser-known Parisian delights such as an evening stroll over the Pont des Arts, dancing the night away at the former brothel-turned-nightclub, Le Baron, or a visit to the Turkish steam room in the La Mosquée de Paris? Meet Doni Belau, a former Nebraskan-turned-Bedfordite with a love of all things French. Don’t hate her because she used to have an apartment in Paris, has traveled extensively …
This week’s Great Escape is about sex. And rescuing dogs. Let me explain. Eve Marx, locally famous for her sharp, witty writing—View from the Porch is her humorous collections of essays about life in Bedford—loves animals. And she’s also a professional “sexpert.” That’s the title of her newest writing gig at ThirdAge media, an online community for baby boomers. Her credentials extend much further than that, however, having authored seven other books on sex and flirting, such as Read My Hips: The Sexy Art of Flirtation and FlirtSpeak: The Sexy Language of Flirting. Plus she used to review …
