Is the Eiffel Tower Everything I Dreamed? The Build-up As a little girl I grew up with the dream of visiting Paris. The city of lights. The city of love. A city of my dreams. I arrived in Paris midafternoon after a red-eye flight across the Atlantic Ocean. My mom and I were running on…

Living in a Painting The Dream of Maison de Claude Monet As a kid, around six or seven, I fell in love with the style and beauty of Claude Monet paintings. For my birthday one year, I hung a poster with a grainy image of the famed water lily painting. Later on, I would visit…