I'll always have Paris

and other things perhaps one day I will fit in a memoir

In October 2023 I booked a trip to Paris for the very first time, opting, of course, for the “nonrefundable” hotel price, lest I waste an extra $200 — I was sure I was going on that trip.

Then I found out I had to have surgery on a softball-sized ovarian cyst I didn’t know I had. I learned about how in the interim it could burst or torse (cute medical wo…