Trust Your Neighbor?

When you take to the road, who can you trust? When you stay at home, who do you trust? How ready are you to accept the outsider who arrives in your midst? (Love Thy Neighbor 5)

The suburban station where I catch the train to Paris

Not that I didn’t try. Not that I haven’t been trying.

I have, I am, I will, but I’m convinced it doesn’t work.

There’s something about being a foreigner, an outsider, the new kid on the block. It’s hard to belong in a world defined by fear of immigrants.

I’ve always called myself “l’immigrée de luxe.” I…