A Top Ten Memoir: 2001 - "Made it to the Milky Way..."

In 2001, it felt like I was traveling through the universe for one of the greatest experiences of my life.  When I was growing up, my mother would always talk about writing letters to my late father’s cousin Irena in Poland.  She would take a dictionary and try to construct each letter word for word.  She’d always say she’d love to visit Poland as both …