Stairs: A Tale of Two Cities

For three weeks the elevator was out in my Paris building, being entirely rebuilt. We had been warned several weeks in advance, and in fact the buzz was around the building long before that. Most of us hoped that the work would be done over the summer, when many people are away. But no. The work was scheduled for the beginning of October, well into the rentrée, and was planned to take ten days. Ha. Those weeks were good for my resting heart rate and blood oxygen levels. But when the new elevator opened for business, well, I went back to my old lazy ways. <a href="https://medium.com/in-living-color/stairs-a-tale-of-two-cities-d501ccf2a047">Click Here</a>