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