Articles

Recent Articles

• Essay: "Crossing Town," in Talking Writing, Finalist, March, 2019

• Book Review: Margaret Benbow's Boy Into Panther, Wisconsin Academy's People and Ideas Magazine

• Essay: Berlin Letters, winner of Kay W. Levin Short Non-Fiction Award, 2018, in Poor Yorick's Journal

• Essay: Back to School, broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio's Wisconsin Life (print and audio)

• Essay: "France in the Family," Second Place CNF, Hal Prize -- the essay is hard to access. Scroll to page 51.

• Essay: Owls, broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio's Wisconsin Life (Audio)

• Book Review: "The Biology of Consciousness" by Thomas J. Erickson, Wisconsin People and Ideas Magazine.

• Book Review: "Wisconsin On the Air," by Jack Mitchell, Wisconsin People and Ideas Magazine.

• Essay: "The Red Shoes," winner of the 2015 Hal Prize.

• Essay: "It Wasn't Exactly the Graveyard Shift," in Proximity Magazine.

• Book Review: "Good Stock: Life on a Slow Simmer by Sanford D'Amato," Wisconsin People and Ideas Magazine.

• Book Review: "Murder in Lascaux," Wisconsin People and Ideas Magazine.

• "From Madison to Paris," Madison Magazine, November, 2011.

• "A Cooking Pilgrimage,” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 3, 2009.

• “Molded by Tradition,” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 19, 2008.

• “Seeing Madison Again Through the Eyes of Others,” Wisconsin State Journal, September 4, 2009.
  

• Essay: "Food for Thought: How an International Book Group Turned to Cooking...," June 3, 2013, The Inquisitive Eater.

• Essay: "Love is Served Steeped in Simmering Bowls of Hearty Soup," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 12, 2013  

• "Chef Chat," The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 23, 2012

• Book Review: Laurel Mills' "Rumor of Hope"

I have been a regular contributor to MyFrenchLife.org  Check the Website www.myfrenchlife.org for some of the entries listed below. Other articles also included here.

MyFrenchLife Posts

• Review of Susie Morgenstern's "Jacques a Dit," and author interview -- MyFrenchLife, November 20, 2016.

• "Teurgoule -- French rice pudding," MyFrenchLife, September, 2016.

• "Le Palais Idéal," MyFrenchLife, June, 2016.

• "Mediterranean Gardens," parts 1 and 2, MyFrenchLife, October and November 2015.

• "Lyon off the beaten track: exploring Croix-Rousse," MyFrenchLife, May, 2015.

• "Paris Revisited: Plus ça change...." MyFrenchLife, December 10, 2014.

• "The Pilot and Le Petit Prince," MyFrenchLife, July 14, 2014. 

• "D-Day Reconsidered," MyFrenchLife, June 2, 2014. 

• An Interview with Cara Black -- "Cara Black's Murder in Pigalle," MyFrenchLife, April 30, 2014.

• "French Cuisine: A Culinary Storm in Provence," MyFrenchLife, April 10, 2014.

• "French Canelés: Are they New York's new cult gâteau?" MyFrenchLife, March 13, 2014.

• "A French Cookbook Straight from La Ferme," MyFrenchLife, February 4, 2014.

• "Set in France: Top three new Francophile books," MyFrenchLife, December 3, 2014.

• "French Lessons," October 14, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "Impressions of France in Norway," September 11, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "In Search of Lost Time," August 13, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "En vacances," July 4, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "Secret Spots for French Flâneurs," May 15, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "Le Petit Déj à la française: A Walk Along Rue Cler," April 4, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "Paris in Portugal," March 7, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "C'est Beau les Baux," February 6, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "A French Epiphany," January 4, 2013, MyFrenchLife.

• "A Christmas Day in the French Capital," December 20, 2012, MyFrenchLife.

• "A French Christmas at Vaux-le-Vicomte," December 12, 2012, MyFrenchlife.

• "On The Hunt for French Truffles," November 5, 2012, MyFrenchLife.

• "Top 3 New Francophile Reads: France between book covers," October 5, 2012, MyFrenchLife.

• "Top 10 French Indulgences: Confessions of an amateur pâtissière," September 5, 2012, MyFrenchLife.

• "France's Musée Nissim de Camondo," August 6, 2012, MyFrenchLife.

• "Uzès: My Kind of French Town," July 11, 2012, MyFrenchLife.