About Me
Whether I find myself at home in the beachy bliss of the Monterey Bay Area of California, or afar in some curious yet captivating place where escapades call, I am enamored of the people, pleasures and pursuits that propel my pen to remember the humorous and beautiful, the charming and disarming, the zany and amazing: All the stories I love to discover in our wondrous world.
My award-winning essays have appeared in a plethora of publications, notably the “Best Travel Writing” and humor anthologies curated by Travelers’ Tales.
Out now is my travel memoir, An Apartment in Paris, a book of love, family and fun set in the City of Light.
Stories
Featured in the Iron Horse Literary Review, Bruno in the Afternoon tells the tale of the quintessential French lover.
Included in this group of winning travel-writing essays, Submitting to Shasta describes how being one of four on a rope on a slope is hardly like enjoying the poetic adventure promised.
In this collection of the year’s best travel essays, Sun Valley With Dad highlights how an adoring daughter is shown just how it’s done, on the ski hill as well as in life.
How I Got My Oh-La-La joins this anthology of outstanding travel stories to reveal how to go from frump to fabulous in a few important French lingerie lessons.
The Camino Less Traveled, with Gato
When a three-week-old Spanish kitten – blind and sick – crossed our path on the Camino de Santiago, the legendary Way my friend Gina and I were walking to honor our seventieth birthdays would take a wildly unexpected detour. Read below the ongoing tale of how little orange Camino – true to the Santiago promise of surprise – would come to renew our lives.
Part 7: The Vet and the Vanquished
Becky and Jim, a spirited sixtyish couple that Gina and I met Day 2 of our Camino, had dropped out. “I don’t believe it.” Gina alerted me by text when she saw the Facebook post. “They were SO gung-ho.” Just so! Fit, fierce, and committed since the previous year when...
Part 6: Beautiful Biarritz
“Okay, kitty, it’s just you and me now. What do you want to do?” I stared at little Camino lying in my lap paws up, staring back. His big milk-plump tummy taunted him, sleep, sleep, sleep, but instead he fixed his eyes on mine, defiant. He didn’t speak, yet I clearly...
Part 5: The Chosen
Gina and I lay back on the twin beds of our inn, already in pajamas at eight o’clock, and watched the Camino kitten tear around the room. Too tiny to climb the curtains, he pranced and dashed from corner to corner, while I on my phone sent frantic, pleading emails to...
Coaching
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Fifteenth Annual Solas Awards
The Solas Awards are the Olympic Games of travel writing, where each year publishers of Travelers’ Tales, the prestigious and popular story anthologies, award medals to “the best travel writing today” in various competitive events. In the Fifteenth Annual Solas Awards recently announced, three of my essays – set in Paris and included in my book, An Apartment in Paris: Stories of Love, Family, and Fun in the City of Light – were honored with medals. On the winners’ podium are:
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