Bon voyage, chère Mélo. If you only knew how much you meant to me–je te garderai dans mon coeur pour toujours. Our dear friend and fellow Francophile, Mélanie, passed away September 23rd after surviving 18 years with the neurodegenerative disease known as ALS. Melanie will be honored in a ceremony on Monday. In case, like me, you struggle to find words to comfort a family in … Continue reading reconfort: a farewell to a reader with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease