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RECAP For my month-long artists’ residency at le Château de La Napoule, I’ve made a vow: To finish a first draft of a visite théâtralisée...

PROLOGUE For getting a ton of work done, I've found there is nothing better than an artists’ residency. You focus on only one thing: the...

Dateline Monday, March 18 - Happy Belated Saint Paddy's Day! Who knew a small town in the south of France (La Napoule) would have such a...

Mama and Papa Maeght - founders of the Fondation Maeght - were devastated when they lost their youngest son, Bernard, to leukemia at age...

View of Chateau de La Napoule pre-departure The fantastic folk at our residency gave us a field trip - and the weather cooperated for the...

Monday March 4, 2024 I'm hot on the trail, sniffing out the story I want to tell about Marie and Henry Clews, creators of Chateau de la...

For many, February means Carnival, the party-hearty days leading up the depressing deprivation of Lent. I've always avoided it. Too many...

Whoa. I’m getting chills. Hairs raising on my arms. Flush of heat in my chest. I've been researching Marie Clews, who I'll be soon...

I love Annie Edson Taylor. Not telling you anything about her here because you can read the whole monologue here. If you'd rather watch a...

yes these are glasses! credit Odee NB - read to the bottom to win a prize! Lunettes – the French word for eyeglasses. Lunette – also the...

I’m getting ready to be ready. I believe I learned that phrase from Esther Hicks. (Any Abraham/Hicks fans out there? It’s huge to me.) Me...

Write-and-Release. Not waiting for perfect to share a piece. It may be small, but that's ok. Send it out and it may grow one day. There...

I find museums incredibly inspiring 98% of the time. The other 2% of the time, the experience sucks. I get furious or depressed or both....

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” So wrote historian Lauren Thatcher Ulrich. On the other hand, badly-behaved women don’t always...

Why a pig? In German, "To have had a pig" means had a stroke of good luck. Unless you're for dinner. Today being December 31, I wondered:...

Every year, starting on November 25, aka "Orange Day," UN Women wages their 16-UNiTE campaign for women's safety and empowerment. More...

"NO CRABBY ZONE" I wish happiness were the honey That sweetened the yogurt of my day. I wish laughter were the lemon That sprinkled every...

When I started writing about Marie-Thérèse, the daughter of Queen Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI of France, I discovered many unexpected...

I've had four days of pretty smooth sailing post-Thermal Ablation that bombarded my thyroid with radio-waves for almost an hour. Then I...

For those who have benign nodules in their thyroids and don't want surgery, I'm sharing a journal of my recent experience with a...