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Dec 11, 20235 min read

Life through Adventurous Eyes: Weathering the Storms, Writing the Stories

D.J. Green has lived an adventurous life. Now, she wonders, can words do justice to her memories?

Nov 17, 202310 min read

Lost and Found in Paris with Les Frenchies Star Colleen Dupont

How Les Frechies star Colleen Dupont lost herself and found her voice - and YouTube fame - in the city of light.

Aug 11, 20237 min read

Dispatch from the Edge of Hope

A late career shift led Karen Kemp to join a tribe of unlikely optimists - wildlife warriors fighting to protect bonobos.

Dec 18, 20216 min read

Living in the Present Tense

Returning to "real life" after six months in France, Wendy Nelson is determined to find joie de vivre in New England.

Jul 7, 20218 min read

Le Fast Food

After months of waxing elegiac about eating ridiculously well in France, it's time to eat le fast food.

Jun 16, 202114 min read

Driving Spirit: An Interview with Rally Race Car Driver Renée Brinkerhoff

Rally driver Renée Brinkerhoff on competing in a man’s world, risking it all, and saying yes to big, wild desires.

Mar 31, 20215 min read

Let Them Buy Shoes

The joys of the well shod foot - a new dispatch from pandemic France My name is Wendy, and I am a shoe addict. There, I said it. And...

Mar 11, 20214 min read

It's still pretty chouette here

D and I arrived in Montpellier the first week of January for his university sabbatical. He’s working, and I am enjoying the freedom of being