Melinda Blau

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Here’s One Those Who Know Me Will Appreciate — and Probably Those Who Don’t….

October 28, 2021 by Melinda Blau

It Started with the Wrong Uber Did you every wonder what happens when you get into someone else’s Uber and the driver doesn’t speak your language? I hadn’t…until recently. Which is surprising. I tend to catastrophize when it comes to gallivanting around Paris armed only with toddler French. I typically imagine myself post-accident: rushed to the […]

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