We were awakened by the late call of the rooster still jetlagged from nearly 24 hours of travel. The day before we landed in Paris, rented a car and drove 8 hours to my friend's residence in the Bordeaux region. It was dark as we wove through wine country, arriving just before midnight with an ache for food and rest. The travel was not for the faint of heart. Though it wasn't until the morning that we realized we were on a small French funny farm. We walked down the wide sto

We left the off-the-grid cabin at 3:30a that morning. This was after we made coffee, took a quick pee outside, brushed our teeth and trekked through the woods. We used flashlights to navigate the slick path over knotted roots, across the oddly-spaced plank-bridge that rested over a series of logs, and wove through the trees. Within five minutes we reached the gravel patch where our car was parked. The drive was dark, but within thirty minutes the sky shifted from dark blue to

It was late. I was tired. I started my day in the Catskills, then drove backroads to Connecticut for a baby shower before returning to...