Category Archives: From home

The trip home yesterday was uneventful. Our worry (and it wasn’t much of a worry) was that the officer at Charles DeGaulle Passport Control would notice that we had stayed 145 days on a 90-day visa. In the event, the … Continue reading →

Hard to believe, but after twenty years, Laurie retired last Monday. Tuesday she was pretty exhausted, both physically – from cleaning out her desk – and emotionally – from having everyone in the library, co-workers and patrons, come to say … Continue reading →

I was talking to a fellow today and he said that he and his wife were planning a trip to Paris for 2014. He asked me, after hearing that we’d been there quite a few times, if $1,000 per day … Continue reading →