The slow ramp-up to summer travels continued in the second half of May with a trip to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands for Arnaud’s 2026 triathlon.
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What stuck with me the most from my visit to Lausanne’s Typewriter Museum was that the typewriter nearly flopped. That’s right, the world almost didn’t have typewriters.
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Several visits to Nice, France, with a hungry triathlete means we’ve pretty well eaten our way through the center of town. What did we like best for eats and treats? Here the list.
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April’s gloriously sunny days tried to knock me off track, but did I let them? I did not! But we’ll see how much longer I can keep that up, with the summer months approaching.
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If you lived in Europe in the Middle Ages, you could very well have come down with a very specific malady: The Dancing Plague. (Sound fun? It was… not.)
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If you’re looking for a base of stay to explore the Ardèche and Drôme regions of France, you can’t go wrong with choosing Tournon-sur-Rhône. We found more to eat and to do in town than we expected!
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A list of the books I read in the first three months of 2026, with my particular favorites in bold, as always.
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The hibernating humans started to come out of their dens in March. And I’m here for it, ready to get out and about a little more than the winter months afforded.
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Sure, sure, canning as a topic doesn’t sound all that interesting, does it? But it is, and that’s what was kind of surprising.
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I even told the Good Housekeeping reporter at one point in our back-and-forth that I didn’t know if I had any self-generated old-school advice, as I’m “not that old.”
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February Februaried, which made it a good month for working on my fiction and a bad month for socializing. Bring on some sunshine and spring already.
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Prehistoric sites, cave towns, cliff towns, medieval castles… To see anywhere close to everything there is to see in Périgord Noir, we would have needed twice the amount of time we had.
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Ardèche and Drôme don’t get the same wow-level publicity as other parts of France, but don’t let that sway you away from visiting. You’ll be surprised at the history, culture, and beauty it offers.
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Outside the United States, the very much beloved Julia Child, so frequently cited and lovingly lauded and even spoofed in books and films, is a relative unknown.
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Quiet and focus on the personal front and anything but quiet and focus on the world stage. Goodness gracious, January. Goodness gracious.
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The story of how Switzerland, a country with nothing inherently to do with chocolate, has come to have so much to do with chocolate.
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Always a long internal debate each year to put this list together, but I finally got it done. Here’s my list of the best of the best books I read in 2025.
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In order of roughly the date I finished reading them, here’s the list of books I read in the fourth quarter of 2025. As always, I’ve put my favorites in bold.
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