Adventures in Iowa

I hope you’re all hanging in there. Spring is coming. May it bring renewal.

As usual, I’m very behind in my chronicling, but I wanted to recount the loveliest days of January, when Isabelle came to visit me in Iowa for the very first time. I’ve visited her in the Paris region most summers since we finished at UCLA, but she hadn’t been back to the States since and so had never seen where I live now.

One of our primary goals was to make of her visit a relaxing vacation for both of us, so we didn’t...