On those New York City nights that are neither freezing nor stifling, I like to stand in the middle of the street outside my apartment building. 106th St. is unusually wide by New York City standards and almost completely devoid of traffic in the late evening. Away from the incessant horns of Midtown, the raucous, jam-packed bars in the Village, and the screeching Bronx-bound subway, I can stand in the center of 106th St. for many minutes on end, with...

The day my parents told me we would be moving to France for a year, I locked myself in my bedroom and threw a tantrum, pounding on my favorite red velvet pillow and swearing that I would run away from home. Looking out through my tear-filled, 8-year-old eyes, I saw the tiny town of Johnson, Vermont, as my universe and the friends I had there as the centers of that universe. That place called “France” seemed nothing more than a...

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