On Short Stories

Thanks to Demetris Dallas for this quote from the New York Times book review of Zadie Smith's collection of short stories:

"To consider yourself well versed in contemporary literature without reading short stories is to visit the Eiffel Tower and say you've seen Europe".

When in Paris, one discovers a lot of different views and angles of the Eiffel Tower. I've never actually visited it. But you can now read my short stories - from all over Europe and around the world!

I was able to spend some precious time with my daughter,
and to give her my new book.
She's so busy, I doubt she'll find the time to read it!

No sooner had we arrived, it seemed, than she suddenly had to  reschedule her plans and  travel itinerary. Before she flies from Paris to Istanbul, she has had to add a flight, with the French news film crew, to Barcelona, before returning to Paris again to fly back to Washington DC.

Our last hasty lunch in Paris,  while she re-organizes her flights:

And I thought that I had "a spinning world"!

The sad news is that in Barcelona she was robbed of her credit cards,
passport and much else besides. A nightmare. She had to cancel the trip to Istanbul.