Rules for Gypsy Girls

Be careful when you wake: breathing lets them know how asleep you were. Don’t hang your coat from a hook in the door. Ignore curfew. Do not become the fool they need you to become. Change your name. Lose your shoes. Practice doubt. Dress in oiled cloth around sickness. Adore darkness. Turn sideways in the wind.  Give the impression of not having known.

--Colum McCann, Zoli, p. 47.


Bella is fighting off a cold that has laid her brother and father low. 


We went out exploring, stopped for tea (she got a wonderful coconut rooibos chai), and she fell asleep in the tea house.