Madame du Bois at the pastry shop has been very kind. My money from home - my father doesn't know that my mother still sends me some - and what little monies I have made writing for a local newspaper don't always cover my daily costs, and when Madame found out, she offered to feed me a meal a day for a poem a day. It seemed like an unfair exchange ( Read more... )

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Monsieur Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec stopped by this afternoon with his sketchbook, showing me his latest works. He is quite a talented painter, and his subjects - mainly prostitutes, dancers and cabaret stars - benefit from being his models. A little extra money doesn't hurt when you don't earn much to begin with. Henri sometimes lives at the ( Read more... )