If we lose the keys at our Paris VRBO, we'll be charged five-hundred Euros. In dollars, that's... a lot, especially since I can get a key...

I felt warm pressure and realized it was the woman behind me. The inch I managed to claim while waiting in line for the Tower had...

During WWII, my dad was invited to dinner with a French family. Before he left the barracks that night, he ducked into the mess hall,...

exclaimed my exuberant husband, dropping a massive wheel of brie into our weird shopping cart. We hauled the cart up the flight of stairs...

but Gary and Lauren climbed a sculpture shaped like a pile of blocks winding into the sky like a chunky staircase, a staircase set on the...

Standing outside our front door with our beachy feet, we had two choices: we could track sand into our fussy landlord's apartment, or we...

We ordered fried fish, imagining chunks of something freshly caught in a crispy batter but getting instead a pile that looked like french...

Getting over the threshold is the hardest part of any adventure. By the time the house key is in the lock, I feel like I've run a...

...the toilet overflowed into the shower in a truly disgusting mess of tremendous magnitude. Lauren was at camp and Gary was due at the...

In the intense heat of the desert, I chucked copper pipes into the back of our truck and hauled them to a recycling center. The attendant...