Black and white photo of a young man standing outdoors in casual clothes.
15 Nov

Writing in France

Deception
My part of Burgundy (Côte-d'Or)  is a  landscape of ‘manicured’ rolling hills. The French farmers are meticulous, the crop rows straight ( three harvests a season),  the  hillsides dotted with...
15 Dec

Collegiale de Notre Dame

Family / Resurrection / Russia / Soviet Union
Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F.  I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the...
Waves crashing against rocky coastline under a clear sky.
25 Dec

War in Ukraine observed from United Kingdom

Deception / Family / Germany
Patrice and I are spending Christmas with Michelle and Nigel in Horsmonden, UK. We had met them a week ago in Calais to drive to Bruges, Belgium, for the Christmas...
30 Oct

The Robert Olen Butler with Clara Herrera Visit Semur-en-Auxios

Family / Publishing
Robert & Robert at Le Relais Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu, France and Clara Robert Olen, long-time buddy, and his wife, Clara Herrera, visited Patrice and me in France ( 15-22...