On Wednesday Bill returned from a two-week trip around the world: England, China and Indonesia. He proudly takes one small bag on these marathon trips and sends his laundry out in China. His last stop this trip was five days in the coffee fields of Sumatra. Following four flights over 30 hours that finally brought him home, we emptied the contents of the bag directly into the washer. Bill closed up the bag and put it in our closet -- for me to use on a short trip this weekend.

At 5:00 this morning I opened up the bag and remembered that I love Dancing with a Foreign City Slicker. Sometimes I forget the details in that first paragraph, and so does Bill....