Stories listed in alphabetical order with brief recap. See “Recipes” page with links to photos and how-tos. See “Present and Past Published” for chronological links to all stories.
- A Guest Room Under the Porch Colorado mountain summer with an uninvited young buck in residence under the front porch
- A Mountain Gem for 70 Years ode to Rocky St. John & the iconic Meadow Mountain Cafe in Allenspark, Colorado
- An Egg in the Coffeepot Swedish egg coffee & life lessons from a stone farmhouse in Michigan
- The Baba au Rhum Affair love affair with a French dessert creates obsession & break up
- Babies and Rice So Very Nice grandmother hormones kick in with care & feeding of parents & first babe
- Bastille Day the French Way La Fête nationale on July 14 from a rooftop in Paris
- Bags of Laughter requested gift from Germany induces all day laughter
- Becoming a Casual Animal favorite son-in-law dreams of craft brewery & builds it in Kansas City, Missouri
- Begin With Russian Dumplings Russian New Year eating, drinking & partying–explained from Latvia
- Being Jane Filer deep dive into artistic process, life story, and the “artful” unfolding of new friendship with Jane Filer
- Berry Best Summer Sangria booze & berries on a sweltering summer day in midwest America
- Both Sides of the Bountiful Table first American Thanksgiving has two sides to the story
- Brave Enough a young poet laureate, a brilliant recitation & the inspiring power of words
- Breaking Bread in Taiwan dinner party gaff creates table side bonding with stories and laughter
- Bugling Elk and Sacred Spaces cabin in the Rocky Mountains where family, friends & elk run through it
- Carolina On My Mind blue ridge mountain cabin, bourbon, brisket, & a best girlfriend
- Can’t We All Just Get Along civility and finding common ground from a fictional literary character, Alexander Rostov, and then a 4 year-old boy
- Carla’s Dogs dog whisperer in Athens, Greece overcomes life’s adversities by taking in stray dogs
- Carla’s Dogs, One Year Later crowd funding update of what happened in Carla’s dog kingdom
- Casual Animal Brewing Company, KC, MO daughter and son-in-law’s creative craft brewery with community outreach
- Caught in a Monster Jam subculture for those obsessed with noise and humungous machines doing impossible tricks
- Champagne in France: “Tasting the Stars” anecdotes and stories of Dom Perignon, French Champagne & everything to love about that
- Cocoa Cake With My Curry, Please American woman born in India cooks curry, chocolate cake, & saves family’s Singapore gecko from death by chocolate
- The Coleman House, Villa Ridge, Missouri 180 year-old Missouri farmhouse preserved & updated plus Coulter family history
- Comfort Food for Cal oldest cousin leans into midwestern bland palate, me to chili & spices–to each our own comfort food
- Cow Seduction leaving France and missing Normandy sea-salted buttah more than anything else
- El Rincón Taos New Mexico the Ralph Waldo Emerson Meyers’ family story from 100+ years ago to today & the oldest trading post in Taos
- Fabio Meets Brownies Cocaine mother’s gift of “5-Minutes of Peace” repaid with decadent brownies–no drugs involved
- Finding Frank in Taliesin artisanal bread workshop + Taliesin + Frank Lloyd Wright = a great story
- Foxglove & Oreos on the Camino hiking to “the end of the world” on centuries old trails in Spain
- Frozen Euphoria ice cream & children are the most companionable companions–photo essay proof
- French-splaining American Thanksgiving Thanksgiving from the French point of view & the best holiday dressing ever
- Gare de Lyon and Le Train Bleu Paris train station, belle époque elegance, & M.F.K. Fisher lore
- Garlic and Girlfriends the best party food & the best of friends mixed with wine & unwind
- The Grown-up Table art of the dinner party demystified & why guests are never allowed to clean up
- Guest Ready Sweetness must-taste caramel bars, double chocolate brownies & s’mores in a pan
- Hope as a Destination rock & roll lyrics, a painting & a poem inspire in tumultuous political times
- Making Perfect Rice you only need an index finger
- Relishing the Radish salt, butter, & radishes combine into a novel French first course
- The Hard Boiled Egg make them to perfection
- Care About Cast Iron vintage iron pans & why you should love and care about them
- Finally, The Best Salad Dressing Ever resto recipe tweaked at home becomes the one, plus an abridged version
- Quarantine Comfort Food grilled cheese with buttery caramelized onions fuels heavy snow shoveling & wildlife watching during pandemic shutdown
- Hellenic Halloumi grilled halloumi sandwiches in Cyprus & a memorable friendship
- High Winds Coronavirus lockdown renews camping skills even in inclement weather
- Home is Where You Are, Even Overseas Singapore jungles, friends, & finding home where you are
- Hosting and Guesting 101 a great host and a better guest form the purest art of gathering together
- July 4 in 2024 considering democracy amid fireworks in Washington, DC in present times
- Kindle Some Candlelight candle mystery, magic, and etiquette light up the dark season
- La Bonne Rentrée in Paris ritual return to Parisian weekend flea market after summer holidays
- Leaving Paris and Hemingway insider history & tour of Hem’s Paris haunts & iconic Hemingway Bar
- Leila Finds Her Way toddler learns trust with other caregivers by “shaking things off”–literally
- Letting Go in Latvia an international marriage, a pagan wedding tradition & the inevitable letting go
- Libby’s Lessons in Lauzerte all-day-exercise boot camp balanced by luxury in southwestern France
- Living Both Sides of the French Coin French bureaucracy almost ruins the day, but loses
- Looking Back to the Present November 2015 Paris Terrorist attack & healing in a Xmas market
- Love and Layers of Lasagne Latvian/American love story breeds favorite family recipe
- The Lowly Leek from Boring to Sublime French women diet on mushy leeks, but there are better ways to eat them
- Max and the Beanstalks master home gardener & friend teaches pickling beans to a novice
- The Memorable Not-So-Great Birthday mother/daughter birthday mis-adventure in German fasting clinic
- Million Mile Stories Hong Kong rooftops, a nightmarish landing, and one small child who aborted a take-off
- More Than Just an Egg Sandwich egg sandwich meets philosophy in Colorado mountain cabin
- My Brief Stint With the CIA fact, fantasy or maybe a life lesson in the art of conversation
- My Market Street in Paris everyone has a “poste de observation” [favorite café] to watch & be watched
- My Favorite Kind of Teenager teen-age nieces & a forever-memory day unfolds in NYC
- Mussel Memory in Brussels déjà vu trip seeking mussels & street waffles in Brussels
- Ode to My Paris Kitchen favorite kitchens in Paris & Colorado serve as reflective havens
- Of Twins and ‘Tinis twins in twos, martinis best at one
- Paris al Fresco snowy day reverie of remembered lunch in a private Parisian courtyard
- People Who Pull the Magic Out of You the kind of friends to stick with
- The Poetry of Space philosophies of crafting any personal space into home
- Rain Happened spur-of-the-moment summer picnic in National Park ends in spectacular fanfare
- Rocky’s Meadow Mountain Cafe tribute to Rocky St. John & her legacy cafe in Allenspark, Colorado
- Scottish Highland Liquid Sunshine quotes for whisky lovers & a verra fine Scottish New Year
- Searching For Poppies wild fields of red poppies and a Mary Oliver poem inspire metaphoric reflection on living overseas
- Secret Eating eating something all by yourself is about more than the food
- Sex in a Pan not literally, but pretty much for women only
- Shrooming in Latvia forest fête with Russian in-laws & a colorful tailgate lunch that fits in your hand
- Simply Sally American in Paris teaches me to wow French neighbors with homemade picnic fare
- Sipping Avocado Margs in Summer Estes Park summer ritual at Ed’s Cantina. “Get in there!”
- Spoons and Cookies wooden spoons as legacy & for making the best choc chip oatie cookies
- Sunshine on the Back of Your Knees folk cure for jet lag or maybe not
- Taiwan Green Marble Pesto dinner party mishap makes memorable dinner party meal amid laughter
- Paris to Avignon and Le Train Bleu centuries old pope’s palace & baked camembert in a rainstorm
- Transcendent Picnics perfect picnic in Taiwan, roaming water buffalo & a child’s food epiphany
- Treize-A Baker’s Dozen, Paris incredible food, ambience & a place where they know your name
- Two Non Cooks Saved by the Brazilians humiliated by World Cup defeat, Brazil wins first place with two non-cooks
- The Unexpected in Normandy 70th Anniversary of D-Day in France with an unexpected outcome
- Wait Twenty Minutes Then Add Salt pizza dough secret from an Italian mama’s chef son, in Taiwan
- We All Need the Eggs Tennis/Hewitt family how-to: create Easter Egg Tree & global community
- Will Our Children Know & Care About June 6, 1944? guest author reflects on meaning behind D-Day for all generations
- Winning–At What Cost? op-ed, 2016 presidential election, the only one I will ever write
- You Say Jam, Nico Says Confiture young French boy demonstrates conversation-stopping gourmand ritual with jam & bread
