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I'm a lover of nature, New York, books and humor, the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France.
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Flight!

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Flight
“I remember when we had a big scavenger hunt in Dayton when I was a teenager,” my mother said to me once.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Frida!

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Frida
I went to an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago a few days ago titled, “Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds.” Mary Reynolds was an American fine arts bookbinder who l...
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June 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Surrendering to Provence
It was a stone house that was big and old with many rooms and walls as thick as a fortress.
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May 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The man who gave me Japan
He was a short, nervous, tightly-wound man. He always wore a coat and tie, most usually a bow tie—his dress was fastidious—which made him look like an accountant. His face was usually glistening with ...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Paris

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Rainy days in Paris
Paris in the rain is glorious, especially if the rain isn’t hard and unrelenting.
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May 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Turtles.

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A tale of two turtles
A few years ago, we had a water oak in our yard cut down.
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April 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Joy and beauty.

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Birds in the Louisiana woods
It’s hard to find someone who is half-hearted about birds and birding.
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April 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Another land, another world.

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A trip to another world
Saturday, I went to a remote part of south Louisiana, about an hour and a half from where I live, to the White Lake Conservation Area.
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April 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I'd be honored if you joined me in Maine this July for a three-day workshop about memoir.

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Jumpstart Your Memoir: A Three-Day Workshop to Get Your Wheels Turning With Your Writing - SALT WATER FARM COOKING SCHOOL
Join Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Astoria!

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Astoria
I spent the last four days in Astoria.
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March 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Pick your shame gurus carefully
I sometimes think the gurus who give their Ted Talks about shame have never experienced real shame.
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March 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Paris

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Jacques Prévert and love in Paris
When you are young and in love and you travel to Paris, you may, as we did, have a book that becomes a part of your stay as much as any bistro, walk, museum or park.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Rain

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Rain
It’s been raining for hours here in south Louisiana.
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February 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Nature

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A kayak ride in Maine
I posted this two years ago. It's a small picture of what our beautiful world offers us. I think now is a good time to think about nature's gifts.
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February 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Lavinia.

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Lavinia
“Come in,” she said, waving me in with a low hand.
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February 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Bright lights, big city
You may know these words as the title of a book by Jay McInerny.
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January 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Not the way I want to go
I’m an early riser.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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A great boatbuilder.

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The last pointu
They said he was perhaps the last builder of pointus in France. He was 83 years old and lived in Saint-Aygulf, a small town on the Mediterranean almost midway between Cannes and Saint-Tropez. His name...
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January 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Our dog.

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Our dog
Her name is Manon.
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January 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Judy Hartline Elbring
Reading the New York Times’ Bestseller list recently, I saw Kristin Hannah’s novel, The Women, about nurses in Vietnam, near the top.
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January 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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The great poet of "Where have they gone?"

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The snows of yesteryear
It’s impossible to be certain you’re getting what’s essential in a poem by the 15th century French poet François Villon.
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December 29, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Music at Christmas...

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Music at Christmas
At the top of the list—Handel’s Messiah. By the German-born, naturalized British citizen, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742. Continued to be perform...
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December 19, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Homage to my body.

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Old faithful
I’m in my late seventies.
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December 13, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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Coming home
I’m a writer.
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December 6, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Thankful.

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Thankful
I’m thankful for so many things.
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November 28, 2024 at 11:49 AM