I’m currently ensconsed in a sweet, small Northern European town very much like many sweet, small, Northern European towns–a thoroughfare with cobblestone streets, churches that look like Martin Luther might have tacked a list of demands onto them, lush gardens, lots and lots of bicycles, rivers and bridges. My stopover was long-ago booked through Zurich, so given that a loved one is currently camped out in Bonn, it seemed only logical that I would swing by to say hi. It’s only a brief sojourn, but really lovely.

I hope to get some work done (in fact, I’m opening a Word document right this second) but it’s also so nice just to feel like I’m a bit on holiday.