Whack! The little girl smacked her tiny rainbow umbrella down on the restaurant’s marble table with an unexpectedly loud crack. No one was hurt; nothing
This 1,000 year old linden tree has such a perfect shape from the outside. A really old tree gives me a new perspective on life
Shady arcade along the Rue de Rivoli that houses two English language bookstores in Paris. © Laurel Decher, 2017. For All in Paris Who Read
Construction machines are wasted without a little child to sit in a lawn chair and appreciate the show. This last week, I kept a list
In 2017, I participated in the local community garden for the first time. A new growing season is always a hopeful time for me. No
My husband and I went looking for a half-circle of oaks he knew from thirty years ago. (No comments from the peanut gallery 😉 He said their group held hands around it because it was so big (nearly 8 meters around and 24 meters tall!). It’s gotta be old: 600-800 years!
These blossoms and buds look like visual staccato and legato notes. Short, sharp. Open, sweet. Sometimes learning something that you had given up on changes
This year, my husband gave me a Page-a-Day calendar to learn Italian. Today’s page was a dialogue between two men at a bus stop, getting
A year ago, I wrote about our “rastafarian” Joseph and the challenges of writing about other people’s cultures: Skin-colored Felt: Doing other people’s cultures wrong.
This is the fourth post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. You can find the first post
Every year on October 3, Germany celebrates the Tag der Deutschen Einheit, (literally, the “Day of German Unity.”) It’s the day when East and West
Ferris Wheel In Progress. Dresden, Germany. © Laurel Decher, 2016. Writing Gratitude Countdown This is the sixth post in my Writing Gratitude Countdown. As we