*** "Breakfast Meeting at New Locanda" is a warm, memory-rich story that blends nostalgia, place, and friendship into a gentle narrative about reconnection. It is a tale where the physical journey across Ottawa mirrors an internal journey through decades of recollections, each step awakening a thread of personal history. *** Breakfast Meeting at the New Locanda By Harry Arabian I was in Ottawa for the yearly Fire Safety Conference at Minto Place— a trip I’d made often enough that the city’s downtown blocks felt familiar, though never worn-out. On Tuesday evening, I phoned Andy to let him know I was in town and hoped to see him before my Friday flight home. “Wednesday, early morning. Eight sharp,” he said. “We’ll meet at the New Locanda Diner on Laurier West. Short walk from where you are—and trust me, they’ve got the best Lebanese coffee in the city. Fresh man’oush that’ll take you right back to vendors on the streets of Beirut .” That settled it. The next mornin...