It snowed in Paris today!   Astrid had been in Paris for exactly eleven days.  Today was the twelfth and she had seen snow before – after all she came from America – from a little town just outside of Boston,…

The face that glared back at me from the mirror wasn’t mine. For sure, I’d never before possessed that confident chin, and the eyes that normally would be comfortable only downcast, were bright and direct. There was a healthy luster…

My head was spinning or was that the bed?  I’d been to a work event the night before and now, lying here, didn’t remember how I got home, or for that matter, why I was clad in only a t-shirt…