THE VISCOUNT OF MAISONS LAFFITTE CHAPTER NINETEEN Camille spotted Eloise through the glass doors and raced outside after her. “Eloise, hi!” She turned and faced him calmly, but with a pleasant smile on her face. She didn’t look unhappy to see him. “Hi Camille.” When he just stared at her without speaking, her smile grew broader and her eyes twinkled…. Read More
Archives for January 2015
Jesus, the Idiot, and Samuel Pickwick
I remember when I first read Matthew 11:28-30. I was in Taiwan, bewildered with grief over my brother’s suicide, and suffering from an undiagnosed depression from a car accident that resulted in head trauma a few months prior. I was homeless, in a sense, coming from New York, where I had been out of work and staying in my boyfriend’s apartment, to my current… Read More
Visiting Rouen
Rouen is located in Upper Normandy, and is pronounced Rue-on. Except that you have to spit on the rue and snort on the on, and you may as well pronounce it ruin, since that’s what you’re going to do to the French language, even with your best efforts to get it right. Rouen is known as the City of a Hundred Spires…. Read More