Oct 25, 2016
Wanderland Writers has published another travel anthology, and this one, IMHO, is the best yet. It’s Wandering in Andalusia: The Soul of Southern Spain. The sixteen authors share stories and poems about a country ripe with contradiction: an arid landscape filled...
Mar 17, 2015
I’m having so much fun interviewing for NPR’s Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer! In this conversation, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Dave Cooney and Helen Maguire tell me about about Aer Lingus’ new daily nonstop service from San...
Sep 17, 2014
The world’s most exquisite coffee—and certainly the most expensive—is made from coffee beans that have been eaten, partially digested, and excreted by a small Southeast Asian creature called the luwak. This coffee-making process, which I hadn’t heard of...
Sep 15, 2014
I learned to bake brown soda bread from my Grandma Hayes. She stood nearly five feet tall, always straight and proud, had red hair and freckles that she hated, and strong, cool arms that I loved. I didn’t realize it at the time, but Grandma also taught me about...
Sep 12, 2014
Hear about a surprising massage in Bali from Wayan, the healer featured in the bestselling book, Eat, Pray, Love. In this case, it was “Eat, Pray, Scrub” and the result was not what I expected.
Sep 12, 2014
I went to Paris to learn about French kissing—how do the French figure they can lay claim to a “French kiss”? What makes it French?
