The day after you left Quiet filled the emptiness I woke up thinking, “Two pain au chocolat and three croisssants, do I need to buy more orange juice?” Only to remind myself no breakfast was needed. Everything familiar is…

  The last night called for something special, so we went on a dinner boat cruise along the Seine with Paris as a backdrop.                   

        Music to celebrate the arrival of summer and the longest day of the year. Paris like most of France pours into streets with singing and dancing into the wee morning. Chelsea met us after work and…

  Mona at the Louvre she barely cracked a smile when my nieces went to greet her.         We walked three miles inside the Louvre, and saw barely half of it. How many 12 years could do…

  My beautiful nieces. How can I be this happy? This lucky? To have a family that is loving by action, authentic, who think of others before themselves? When I think about their going home it stirs that within me…