1. A great Paris city guide from a French local.

2. Modern Love’s: When Your Greatest Romance Is a Friendship.

3. How silly trade can get between two countries, in Planet Money’s Chicken Tax.

4. Andrew Kearns photography portfolio mostly shot in Oregon.

5. This man, who drives hours everyday to bring water to wild animals in drought.

6. Alanis Morissette knows exactly how Ironic I’m feeling this week.

I hope you have an energized week ahead full of unexpected romances, unwavering devotion and a little bit of irony.