Stories listed in alphabetical order with link and brief recap. See “Recipes” page with links to photos, and how-tos.

• A Guest Room Under the Porch Colorado mountain summer with an uninvited young buck in residence
• A Mountain Gem for 70 Years ode to Rocky St. John & the iconic Meadow Mountain Cafe in Allenspark, CO
• An Egg in the Coffeepot Swedish egg coffee & life lessons from a stone farmhouse in Michigan
• The Baba au Rhum Affair dessert love affair creates obsession & break up
• Babies and Rice So Very Nice grandmother hormones kick in with care & feeding of new parents & first babe
• Bastille Day the French Way La Fête nationale & French revolution from a rooftop in Paris
• Bags of Laughter a requested gift from Germany induces all day laughter
• Becoming a Casual Animal favorite son-in-law dreams of craft brewery & builds it in KC MO
• Begin With Russian Dumplings Russian New Year eating, drinking & partying–explained
• Being Jane Filer deep dive into an artist’s process, life story, and the “artful” unfolding of new friendship
• Berry Best Summer Sangria booze & berries on a sweltering summer day
• 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
• 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 friend
• Caught in a Monster Jam subculture for those obsessed with noise and humungous machines doing impossible tricks
• Champagne: “Tasting the Stars” anecdotes 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 kitchen gecko from death by chocolate
• The Coleman House 180 year-old farmhouse preserved & updated, Coulter family history, too
• Comfort Food for Cal older cousin leans in to bland tastes, me to chili & spices–to each their own comfort food
• Cow Seduction leaving France and Normandy sea-salted buttah!
• 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 cocaine involved
• 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–proof in the photos
• 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
• Hack #1: Making Perfect Rice you only need an index finger
• Hack #2: Relishing the Radish salt, butter, & radishes–a novel French first course
• Hack #3: The Hard Boiled Egg make them to perfection
• Hack #4: Care About Cast Iron vintage iron pans & why you should love them
• Hack #5: Finally, The Best Salad Dressing Ever resto recipe tweaked at home becomes the one, plus an abridged version
• Hack #6: Quarantine Comfort Food grilled cheese with buttery caramelized onions fuels heavy snow shoveling & wildlife watching during pandemic shutdown
• Hellenic Halloumi grilled halloumi sandwiches & memorable friend in Cyprus
• 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 is the purest art of celebration
• Kindle Some Candlelight candle mystery & magic light up the dark season
• La Bonne Rentrée in Paris ritual return to eccentric Parisian flea market after summer holidays
• Leaving Paris and Hemingway insider history & tour of Hem’s Paris haunts & iconic Hemingway Bar
• 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 France
• Living Both Sides of the French Coin French bureaucracy attempts to ruin the day & 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 family favorite dish
• The Lowly Leek from Boring to Sublime French women diet on mushy leeks, but better ways to eat them
• Max and the Beanstalks master home gardener & friend teaches pickling 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, & an aborted takeoff
• More Than Just an Egg Sandwich mountain made egg sandwich meets philosophy
• 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 déjà vu trip seeking mussels & waffles in Brussels
• Ode to My Paris Kitchen favorite kitchens in Paris & Colorado as reflective havens
• Of Twins and ‘Tinis twins in twos, martinis best at one
• Paris al Fresco snowy day reverie about 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 poetry is the way you make spaces into home
• Rain Happened  spur-of-the-moment late summer picnic in National Park ends in spectacular fanfare
• Rocky’s Meadow Mountain Cafe tribute to Rocky St. John & her legacy cafe in Allenspark, CO
• Scottish Highland Liquid Sunshine quotes for whisky lovers, black whisky & a verra fine Scottish New Year
• 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 annual forest fête with Russian in-laws & colorful tailgate lunch
• Simply Sally American in Paris teaches me to wow French neighbors with homemade picnic fare
• Sipping Avocado Margs in Summer Estes Park ritual at Ed’s Cantina. “Get in there!”
• Spoons and Cookies wooden spoons as generational legacy & 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 meal & much laughter
• The Train from Paris to Avignon centuries old pope’s palace & baked camembert during a rainstorm
• Transcendent Picnics perfect picnic in Taiwan amid roaming water buffalo & childhood 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 & the unexpected happens
• 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 an annual Easter Egg Tree & global community
• Will Our Children Know & Care About June 6, 1944? guest author reflects on meaning behind D-Day
• 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 ritual with jam & bread