Use grammar not to make your writing better but to make it sound more like you.
Maddening Madagascar
The Dancing Birds of Fez, Morocco
Mirabelle
Fall in love with a soap dish
Mutiny in the Galápagos — Ecuador 1975
Singing in the Irish Mist
Chekhov’s Six Rules For Writing Fiction
Dancing Diamonds — a gift unwrapped
Kayaks, Castles, and Kielbasas in Poland
Spice Up Your Writing
Trumpets of Warning
Grandma Didn’t Die
Dance with Your Children!
Queens of the Nile
The Dwarf and the Otter—A True Story From the Magic Island of Chiloe
The Blue Eye— a Whale of a Tale from the Big Island of Hawai’i
The San Francisco Dance Lady
The Garden of Eden—Auditioning at a Strip Club—Not My Best Idea
Sleeping on Sekhmet: Magic Dreams at Damanhur, Italy
Olé in Paris — a story of a wild flamenco night
The Beauty of Losing Our Fear
Elevate Us From the Shadows
Rada’s Bloom — A Holocaust Survivor’s Memory Thrives in My Garden
Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone
Sole Food (What is the daily diet in Bolivia?)
Fish Trader Ray
Amazon Mom
Dried Fish and Impulsive Love
The Flying Frug — How I Broke My Arm (a true dance story)
Two-Steppin’ in New Orleans
How I Crawl Out of the Swamp of Writer’s Block
How do writers dress the characters?
10 Big No Nos in Writing
Finding the perfect word or “le mot juste”
Dervla Murphy: possessor of an astounding travel-writing legacy
Mrs. Marco Polo of the Americas
My Kinda Woman
Little Chicken Bone
Travel Writers Make Good Spies
The Spiritual Mysteries Beneath Our Feet
Spirit in the Woods
Mad Martha & the Potion
Dancing With the Living During Day of the Dead
What is a Miracle?
Rendering Epiphanies in Your Writing
The Wishing Stone — Magic in Ireland
The Climbing Mom—El Cap at 66
Dark is Divine: a petite story
Dancing with the Saints in Cuba
Writing Short Stories Makes You a Better Writer
Breaking Open Guadalupe — a New Mexico love story
Freedom From the Shadows
“Storytelling for the Armchair Traveler” February 10,2021, via Zoom, 6:30 – 8:00 pm featuring Lisa Alpine, Kate Farrell & Mary Mackey
Travel Stories of Wonder & Change
The 37 Dramatic Situations All Stories Revolve Around
Think Like a Feather
Disappointing Gifts
Daily Routines of Well-Known Creatives
Pickles in Paris
So Much Happiness—a poem
Sharing the Gift of Gratitude
The Coptic Priest: a Sunlit Journey to Jericho
Ten Tips on Writing
Why Are Northern European Americans Called Caucasian?
David Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books
My Favorite Travel Writer Rode Her Bike from Ireland to India 56 Years Ago
Tina Turner Still Has Legs
A Tiny Taste of Anchovies
Touchdowns in Best Travel Writing Awards!
Thundering Thighs—a writing prompt
Ode to Poet Mary Oliver
The Monster Dildo of Mexico
How to Write the Prefect Sentence
French the Hard Way—My Slave Days in Switzerland
10,000 Miles With My Dead Father’s Ashes
Short Story Writing Formula
Surviving the Salt River in Arizona
Licking Ice Cream in Bolivia
Using Subpersonalities to Create Fictional Characters
Two Muhammads — Morocco 1983
Two Thumbs Up — New Zealand 2011
The Firmament of Food – Ashland 2011
“Sugar Granny & Her Dancing Shoes” wins a Solas Award
Why I Moved to Paris on my 18th Birthday
Armenian Caravanserai Dog
Words are the Wings— Interview with Ursula Le Guin
Change Your Accent to Get What You Want
“The Soul of a Great Traveler” book launch 11/10/17 at Book Passage
When Writing Is Actually About Waiting
Tips on How to Write Your Memoir
Great Reads: My Favorite Books
How to be a Good Houseguest 101
Cosseted At Crom Castle in Northern Ireland
The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences
To Be Happy, Be Creative Once a Day
The Lie (flash fiction)
