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RSJ’s Advice to Upcoming Graduates 2025
A few years ago, when both of my kids left for college, I wrote each of them a letter. Nothing…
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Cakes Fit For A King
It’s king cake season. Those four words don’t carry a lot of weight across 90% of this country. Though in…
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It looks like 2023 will go down as the year of the king cake— at least in my book. I…
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RSJ’s New Orleans Restaurant Recommendations 2024
NEW ORLEANS— In a poll of national food critics I believe New Orleans would be listed among the top three…
Read moreRSJ’s Top 10 New Orleans Breakfasts
The following is the first in a summer-column series that will cover dining in New Orleans. Over the next four…
Read moreAn Engagement to Remember
This past weekend was a memorable one for our family. Our 26-year old daughter got engaged to her longtime boyfriend.…
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Eight Weeks, Fifty Memories, One Grateful Heart
By the end of this year, more than 1,400 people will have traveled with me on RSJ Yonderlust Tours. It’s…
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Onward Toward a Creative Life and Not an Unlived Life
There’s a quiet fear I carry that never really goes away. It doesn’t keep me up at night, but it…
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A Spring of Celebrations
YPRES, BELGIUM—This spring has been a long celebration—one after another, in a beautiful blur. It all started with Mardi Gras,…
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The Gift of Work, the Blessing of People
(A Life I Didn’t Plan, But Am Grateful to Live) PETROGNANO, TUSCANY— Two full days off. That’s a rarity over…
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Friendship
PETROGNANO, Italy — Something unexpected happened over the course of the last 13 years. A quiet village in the Tuscan…
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Rolling Fork is Truly Rising
PETROGNANO, TUSCANY— Since 2017, over 1,350 people have traveled with me on more than 55 trips to seven European countries…
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No Sign, No Menu, Just Home
No one signs up for a European tour expecting to have lunch in a stranger’s home in a village so…
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The Romance of a Pig Farm
SEVILLE— No one expects to use the word romantic when talking about a pig farm. But standing in the soft…
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