I recently returned from my annual trip to Meudon to visit Isabelle. The week before I left, I was at a party in Grinnell where no fewer than six of us guests were headed to France within a few days of one another. (Then, while I was in France, I learned through social media that another couple we all knew was also there!) It turned out that two friends of mine were actually taking the same outgoing transatlantic flight as me, so we hung out at the gate together before boarding and then went thr...