My failure to be short and sweet : Paris: Arrive at Montparnasse among over-excited, vacation-expectant children. My Latin Quarter abode, t...

I met my friend Clémence in January when she responded to my search for a language exchange buddy on the La Rochelle couchsurfing group. Sh...

I'm sitting in the university library and there is an old man sitting next to me in a huge fur hat reading a newspaper with a magnifying...

In Spain we sat in parks and made lists of good decisions and encounters that created such lovely momentum throughout our trip. We rode alon...

We never quite figured out what made us fall in love with Madrid. We hadn't heard much about it before we landed there, a fate secured ...

The lights had to brave the storm, too. The Christmas disco ball in the marché was a'swinging. It has been a stra...

There is something strange and exciting about intense weather. Last night the wind was so strong I thought it was a train. This morning it b...