I couldn't believe it. "10,000 Kroners! That's outrageous!"   I was deep in the Troms region of Norway on the Nordost Road. I had been for a while. At the moment, I was trying to cross the ...  [+]

When she left, Anita took Mom's valise, the round one with the wooden handle from Eaton's department store. Mom was furious. She'd had it on hold at the store for weeks while she earned enough to ...  [+]

Probably I shouldn't have looked in that NO ADMITTANCE HIGH VOLTAGE DANGER OF DEATH door. I was loitering on the ramp to the #7 subway train at Grand Central Station. I didn't want to go home to ...  [+]