Back home, she was considered a good girl, but in Paris, she was considered vraiment bien! When her Mother wrote asking if she were cold? Augustine blushed from afar yet laughed out loud…

                         Ma Chère, The letter begins like many others with a tender greeting. Though the force of the words that followed were like none she had ever read…was this her beloved, suffering…

                                  They had nothing to say to each other, yet they chatted endlessly. They wore the same hair-do, -shopped at the same shops, -shared advice on how to get…

                               …in the battering winter, that cold to the heart feeling…a healing occurred. The kind that comes to people living side by side in a shared house. Where little by…

An iron ring fixed on the outside wall of a home, or shop was explained to perfection in French: "Il s’agit d’un anneau pour y nouer la longe des chevaux lorsque le propriétaire du cheval devait faire une course. Autrement…

                            Yesterday morning at the flea market I picked up a leather razor case. When I opened it instead of finding a razor, I found gold-colored curtain rings on a bed…