2020
”Our Ravaged Lady”: Notre Dame de Paris - and a life - catch fire.

2019
”A Jagged Edge in Fez”: A violent memory unspools in the labyrinthine byways of Fez, Morocco.
”The Ancient Storyteller of Morocco”: Ahmed Ezzarghani, traditional Hakawati (storyteller) of Marrakech, Morocco, transcends language, time, and distance.

2017
”The Stance of the Toro Bravo”: A bullfight in Plaza de Toros de las Ventas, Madrid offers a path to healing.
”Spirals: Memoir of a Celtic Soul”: Mystical experience and memory swirl together in Ireland.
”Into Celtic Twilight”: A return to Ireland brings a spiritual experience that leads to a homecoming in California.
”Reconnaissance: Seeking Sainte-Geneviève”: Geneviève, a fifth century French heroine, becomes a guide through current difficult times.
”Out Into Paris”: The terrorists attacks of November, 2015 evoke the past, present, and future of Paris.
”In Vincent’s Footsteps”: An effort to walk in van Gogh’s shoes becomes disastrously real.
”Ave Métro”: A man playing the oboe in the Paris metro evokes Santana’s album Abraxas.

2016
”Cézanne’s Salon des Refusés”: Paul Cézanne’s heartaches and isolation give his art astonishing clarity.
”Bastille Day on the Palouse”: A trip across the Washington state Palouse offers a cure for reverse culture-shock.
”Fez Rushed In”: An overwhelming arrival in Fez, Morocco leads to a slow integration of this kaleidoscopic place.
”The Rarest of Editions”: If books are humanity in print, he’s the king of the world. An homage to George Whitman, former proprietor of Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris.
”Vignettes & Postcards”: Writers from all around the world come from the many areas of Paris - on foot, on bicycles, on the metro - to gather in George Whitman’s private library to create something tangible out of the richness of their lives.
”Escape”: Prose poem based on Henri Cartier Bresson’s photo, Porte d’Aubervilliers.
”Coasting Beyond Boyhood”: Pointe du Hoc, a plain high above the Normandy beaches, moves two teen-aged boys beyond boyhood.

2015
”Deep Travel, Notre Dame”: The mysterious psyche of Notre Dame cathedral issues a challenge to examine religion.
”New York State of Mind”: The skyline of New York invites visions of the skies of Egypt, Peru, Italy and elsewhere.
”Duende in the Louvre”: Spanish poet Federico García Lorca’s concept of duende, the dark thread that runs through our lives, is presented in bone-chilling reality in Musée du Louvre.
”À Propos de Paris”: French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson presents a guided tour of Paris through his eyes.
”The Healing Heights of Machu Picchu”: Pablo Neruda’s poem about Machu Picchu offers insight and courage on a trip to Peru.
”The Boy and His Shield”: René Psarolis was happily wrapped in his own insulated world. He was seven years old in the summer of 1944, busy trailing behind his big brother Henri and his pals, walking hand-in-hand with his Papa, and blooming under the nourishing care of his Maman, who cleared a path for light in the darkness of the German occupation.
”Dear Madame Renaud”: A woman in Normandy who tended the graves of fallen American soldiers after D-Day offers deep healing from grief decades later.
”The Secret of It”: The secrets Parisiennes whispered to me about aging.

2014
”Day Dreamer”: Two teen boys discover something inside a painting in Musee d’Orsay in Paris that proves that the artist achieved his most audacious goal.
”Signs”: After a crisis, every wish made during a day in Paris comes true.
“Storykeepers”: A seven-year-old in Occupied Paris witnesses the crash of a USAF B-17G in his neighborhood and spends years piecing together the stories of the men on the plane and offering healing to survivors.

2013
”Café de Nuit:”: Poem. Come inside Vincent van Gogh’s Night Café for a romantic interlude.
”Coltrane Twilight”: Poem. An ode to John Coltrane’s song, Central Park West.
”The Live Current of the Story: Q and A with Writer Erin Byrne”: As I write, I feel the live current of the story pulsing through me as if I’m a conduit - and I myself am lit up.
”When We Fell in Love (With Reading and Writing)”: For me, reading and writing have always been inextricable from travel.
”Author Q and A: Erin Byrne on Travel Writing”: All good travel writing, I believe, moves people twice: transports them to a place and shifts them emotionally.
”How to Become a Travel Writer - Writer’s Digest Guest Column”: Truth is powerful; its brightness brings on the beast.
”Reading and Writing Morocco”: A House in Fez by Suzanna Clarke takes us into the daily life of vivid, dynamic Fez. The Spider’s House by Paul Bowles goes straight into the most essential challenge of travel.
”French Connections”: Feel the sizzling synapsis of connection inside a Parisian café.
”Frank Sinatra in the Early Evening”: Poem. Flirting with Frank Sinatra while making dinner in the kitchen.

2012
”Red Petals”: Short fiction story. After the Liberation of Paris, a model wearing Christian Dior’s New Look is attacked by market women in Montmartre.

2011
”Vincent’s Vision: The First of Further Letters of Vincent van Gogh”: Perhaps there exists a parallel universe in which Vincent walked up the hill in Auvers-sur-Ouise that summer day in 1890, reached the fields, pulled a gun out of his pocket - and hesitated. This story belongs in that dimension.
”The Taste of This Place”: A bite of baguette evokes past eras of Paris.
”Winged Victory: A Pilgrimage to Paris”: I clicked along in my Franco Sarto boots, a worldly woman, chic, savvy, but when I saw her posed at the top of the Daru staircase, I stopped and stared. Winged Victory had something I lacked.

2009
“Placed in the Place”: During a crisis, the people who were placed in the place that I love turned out to be what I loved about the place.
”Leaning Back Into My Sister’s Spirit”: Pikes Peak, Colorado cushions painful memories and grief.
”Peace Matters”: Nobel Prize Series 2 - The Nobel Peace Prize in light of David Elliot Cohen’s book, What Matters.

2008
”A Rare Blend”: A bunch of people travel to the Medoc region of France and mingle together to produce a rare blend.
”Eight Nobel Prize Laureates on How Leadership Can End War”: Laureates from around the world remind us that peace is not an antiquated notion, but a real possibility that requires certain qualities in our leaders.
”Lessons Abroad”: It was an unlikely place for thoughts of American patriotism: A twisting and turning narrow road under a green canopy in the hills of Ireland.
”Goodbye to Bush: Europeans React to President Bush’s Farewell Tour”: Europe says goodbye to President Bush, opening a window of opportunity for travelers. Discover what this window hinges on.
”Culturedash”: Indulge the desire to travel far away from the familiar.
”Seine Through Fresh Eyes”: A new view of Paris.
”The Fortress of His Mind: Charles d’Orleans’ Captivity in The Tower of London”