Room 255 saved my sanity yesterday. No, I haven’t been committed to an asylum yet like the tranquil setting in Saint Remy where Vincent Van Gogh spent much of the last year of his tormented life. Boston’s cold, snowy record-breaking winter has been really bad this year, but not that bad. Still, after a Friday…
As Valentine’s Day approached last year, Kathy and I window-shopped in Aix-en-Provence, admiring the variety of heart collages, shoe arrangements and other creative if sometimes funky displays in the city’s abundant shop windows. Oh, by Aix standards, Valentine’s fell in the midst of what had been a rather nasty stretch of weather. Lots of rain,…
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The images from across the ocean have been painful: an office room, its floor covered with blood and papers; the arc of iron latticework at the Eiffel Tower’s base, framed around two soldiers, patrolling with semi-automatic weapons; massive crowds, marching for their very freedom of speech. There is no justification for terrorism. Not ever. But…
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