Cinq (Five)
This month marks the start of my fifth anniversary in Paris and I begin my sixth year in Europe. It feels so trite to note this, but how, oh how, does time seem to pass so quickly? When you are in your day to day, everything feels so normal and well, sometimes, boring. But when you stop, take a moment to be mindful and step outside of yourself, you realize the whirlwind you are living. I was in the US for nearly an entire month this year. It was a good time to go back and reimmerse myself in America. I have changed. I no longer snap back into being an American 90 minutes after my flight lands. Things shock me - things that used to seem so normal to me. People think I ask weird questions, like "Do you take credit card?" One guy even said to me, "Ma'am, whoever doesn't take a credit card is just plain stupid." Weirdly, this abrupt retort even seems almost more rude to me than the standard and infuriating Parisian response of indifferenc