Published stories listed in alphabetical order with link and brief description. See “Recipes” page with links to stories, photos, and instructions.

• A Guest Room Under the Porch Colorado summer with an uninvited young buck in residence
• A Mountain Gem for 70 Years ode to the iconic Meadow Mountain Cafe in Allenspark, CO
• An Egg in the Coffeepot enamel pot of Swedish egg coffee and life lessons in a stone farmhouse
• An Essay on The Poetry of Space surroundings make poetry
• The Baba au Rhum Affair love leads to obsession & break up
• Babies and Rice So Very Nice grandmother hormones kick in with care and feeding of new parents & babe
• Bags of Laughter an unfunny gift causes all day, tear-inducing laughter
• Becoming a Casual Animal favorite son-in-law dreams of craft brewery in Kansas City, then builds it
• Begin With Russian Dumplings Russian New Year eating, drinking and partying lived in detail
• Berry Best Summer Sangria booze & berries on a sweltering day
• Brave Enough a young poet laureate, a brilliant recitation, and the power words hold
• Bugling Elk and Sacred Spaces Rocky Mountain cabin where family, friends, and elk run through it
• Champagne: “Tasting the Stars” anecdotes of Dom Perignon, Champagne in France & what’s not to love?
• Cocoa Cake With My Curry, Please Renaissance woman cooks curry, chocolate cake, & saves a gekko life
• Comfort Food for Cal cousin tastes lean to the bland, mine to chili and spices–to each our comfort food
• Cow Seduction leaving France and already missing Norman buttah!
• Fabio Meets Brownies Cocaine mother’s gift of “5-Minutes of Peace” repaid with brownies–not cocaine
• Foxglove & Oreos on the Camino to “the end of the world” on centuries old pilgrimage trails in Spain
• French-splaining American Thanksgiving vintage explanation of Thanksgiving from the French point of view
• Gare de Lyon and Le Train Bleu Paris train station belle époque elegance & M.F.K. Fisher story telling lore
• Garlic and Girlfriends TGIFs–the best food and the best of friends with wine and unwind
• The Grown-up Table art of the dinner party demystified and why guests are never allowed to clean up
• Guest Ready Sweetness guest memorable caramel bars, double chocolate brownies & s’mores bars
• Hack #1: Making Perfect Rice only need an index finger
• Hack #2: Relishing the Radish salt, butter, & radishes–a first-course in France
• Hack #3: The Hard Boiled Egg make a perfect one
• Hack #4: Care About Cast Iron “how-to” care and love vintage iron pans and why you should
• Hack #5: Finally, The Best Salad Dressing Ever NYC resto recipe tweaked at home and becomes the one
• Hack #6: Quarantine Comfort Food pandemic era grilled cheese crafted with buttery caramelized onions
• Hellenic Halloumi grilled halloumi cheese & other forever memories of Cyprus
• High Winds Coronavirus stimulates strong desire to dust off camping skills even in inclement conditions
• Home is Where You Are, Even Overseas Singapore stories of jungles & friends & finding home anywhere
• Kindle Some Candlelight in the dark season light up the night with a lot of candle etiquette
• La Bonne Rentrée in Paris ritual return to eccentric Parisian flea market after the summer holidays
• Leaving Paris and Hemingway insider history and tour of Hem’s Paris haunts including Ritz Hotel Bar
• Letting Go in Latvia international marriage in Latvia, a pagan tradition, and the resulting “letting go”
• Libby’s Lessons in Lauzerte all-day-exercise “boot camp” balanced by food and wine luxury in France
• Living Both Sides of the French Coin French bureaucracy attempts to ruin the day but loses
• Looking Back to the Present 2015 Paris Terrorist attack and the aftermath in Strasbourg’s Xmas market
• Love and Layers of Lasagne cross cultural love story breeds new family recipe
• 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, and friend, talks beans
• The Memorable Not-So-Great Birthday mother/daughter birthday mis-adventure in German fasting clinic
• Million Mile Stories rooftops & a nightmarish landing & a sleeping child who thwarted takeoff
• More Than Just an Egg Sandwich the egg sandwich meets philosophy
• My Brief Stint With the CIA fact, fantasy or simply a life lesson in the art of conversation?
• My Market Street in Paris, everyone has a “poste de observation” [favorite café] to watch and be watched
• My Favorite Kind of Teenager teen-age great-nieces & a forever memorable day in New York City
• Mussel Memory Revisited deja vu trip to Brussels seeking mussels & street waffles & more
• Ode to My Paris Kitchen favorite kitchens in Paris and Colorado become havens during pandemic times
• Of Twins and ‘Tinis twins in twos, martinis best at one
• People Who Pull the Magic Out of You the kind of friends to stick with in Beirut, Lebanon
• Rain Happened  spur-of-the-moment late summer picnic in RMNP ends with spectacular finale
• Rocky’s Meadow Mountain Cafe tribute to Rocky St. John & her legacy cafe in Allenspark, CO. go there
• Scottish Highland Liquid Sunshine quotes for whisky lovers, black whisky & a Scottish Highlands holiday
• Secret Eating eating something all by yourself is more than just the food
• Sex in a Pan not literally, for women only
• Shrooming in Latvia annual forest fête with Russian in-laws and a tailgate lunch in the palm of my hand
• Simply Sally American in Paris teaches me how to wow French neighbors with picnic fare
• Sipping Avocado Margs in Summer Estes Park, Colorado ritual found only at Ed’s Cantina. “Get in there!”
• Spoons and Cookies wooden spoons as legacy & best choc chip oatie cookies in the world
• 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
• The Train from Paris to Avignon centuries old pope’s palace & baked camembert in a rainstorm
• Transcendent Picnics perfect afternoon picnic leads to pasta epiphany in Taiwan’s Yangmingshan Park
• Treize-A Baker’s Dozen, Paris food, ambience & a place where they know your name
• Two Non Cooks Saved by the Brazilians humiliated by World Cup defeat, Brazil wins first with non-cooks
• The Unexpected in Normandy 70th Anniversary of D-Day in France–the unexpected happens in a fine way
• Wait Twenty Minutes Then Add Salt homemade pizza dough secret from an Italian mama’s son in Taiwan
• We All Need the Eggs Tennis/Hewitt family “how to” build an Easter Egg Tree & create global community
• Will Our Children Know & Care About June 6, 1944? guest author reflects on meaning behind WW II 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 reveals conversation-stopping ritual with jam & bread