Lilac is one of the smells that takes me back to the Warsaw of my childhood and my Babcia Halinka's apartment on a hill overlooking the Vistula River. There was a Lilac bush right outside that apartment and we would stop and smell it's flowers...

October is one of my favourite times of the year. I like the slight nip in the air, the fact that the sun still comes out often enough for me to run by the canal a few times a week and I especially like the...