What I'm about to tell you I find is an amazing story, and just another example of how the Internet is indeed shrinking our world.  Okay........

About ten years ago I purchased the above book and as you can see from the stamp inside the cover, I purchased it at Shakespeare and Company in Paris.  It's essays from a woman that graduated from Vassar in 1969, hopped a plane to Paris, ended up marrying a Frenchman, having three children and living there for 25 years.  I loved the book.....the author captured the flavor (both good and bad) of being an ex-pat and living in the City of Light or a Francophile like me that was living there for 5 and 6 weeks at a time, while hubby worked at CDG airport.  You know how I mentioned recently about downsizing and giving away some books.....well, this was one of those books I'll never part with.  It's been sitting here in my studio in the bookcase.

Fast forward to last week......I'm reading Ronni Bennett's blog at Time Goes by and see a comment from a woman named Alexandra that caught my attention.  So I click and I end up on her blog, Chez Sven.  She's my age, 60, and has lived in Paris for 25 years, now married to a Sweedish man and they own a B&B on Cape Cod.  I'm hooked.  Plus, she had another blog listed there, By Bea's Bedside.....a poignant account of caring for her mother until she passed away last year at age 97.  I was mesmerized by that blog and spent three hours reading it.  But my eye kept getting drawn to her sidebar......where the icon of a book was.  The book happened to be "French Graffiti" and I kept thinking, "God, that sounds so familiar."  I've got a million books in my bookcase about Paris and France, but I finally got up and went to check.  And sure enough......there's Sandy's book. (she goes by the name of Sandy)  I couldn't believe it!

I had to email her right away and she thought all of this was just as amazing as I did.  We've now exchanged a few emails and I'm looking forward to getting to know her better. 

Coincidence?  Small world?  The Internet pulling us all even closer?  Who knows.  All I know is, it continues to delight me when things like this happen.

See you here next time.......