Discovering France’s Wines the Old-Fashioned Way
My French-speaking Australian friend Lincoln Siliakus celebrates his love of bicycling, the French countryside, and French wines in a wonderful new, prize-winning book, Visages de Terroir. Check it out!
The Tour de France is Coming to Essoyes!
The “village Renoir” becomes “village de velo” for part of one very exciting day.
Bienvenue a Paris!
With each new group of students, the beauty, wonder and excitement of Paris is experienced, as if for the first time, all over again.
Why Paris? Reason #3
Paris has traditionally been a welcoming place for African-American writers, many of whom wrote about the experience.
A belated, but heartfelt, thanks to my Mom
..it wasn’t until after she died and I had to learn how to live my life without her that I realized how critical my mother’s continuing existence had been to my own.
Being “Up to Here In It”…Together
It is pretty amazing what happens when people tell the truth about where they are coming from, the truths they have lived, what they really think and believe.
Writing from the Heart in Essoyes
Fond memories of Writing from the Heart 2008…and anticipation of a new adventure in Essoyes!
Why Paris? Reason #2
The French have a term for it: laisser-faire, and it means, basically, that minding your own business is a beautiful thing…
Hawaii’s Gift to the Nation…Barack Obama
Fifty years ago Hawaii became our fiftieth state. And in something of a role reversal, the state has given the nation a very special gift…
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 