Love War Champagne series continues with another diary entry where a young woman leads her village in the Resistance in the caves of Champagne of war time France. American soldiers accompany them on their journey of survival, love and espionage. The future is so uncertain - can they resist falling in love?

Love War Champagne - Part 3. A relationship grows amidst wartime life in a Champagne cave. Cooperation and creativity displace dwindling supplies and everyone benefits. She's able to write in her diary again with the Christmas gifts from the American. Hope is afoot, the two leaders grow close - enough so that she shares her diary with the book starved, curious American. She wants him - and anyone who might read her diary in the future - to understand why they fight so hard for thi...

Love War Champagne - The 2nd in a multi-part series. Claire is reading from an old inherited diary - a young woman deals with life (and love) in the Champagne caves of wartime France. With little more than her determination, creativity and the company of her diary, she manages a day at a time. A wayward group of American soldiers joins them in the cave where they figure out how to work together to survive.As Claire reads the diary, she becomes deeply intrigued by the degree to which she ident...

Love War Champagne - First in a multi-part series - Laurente shares an inherited diary with Claire that brings her into the world of Diary Legacies. Here, Claire shares selected diary entries from the women of Champagne who lived it - war, pestilence, economic devastation - and wrote their way through it all. Learning to love during war, surviving in the caves of Champagne and so much more. Although they are living in very different times and places; these women and their diaries have much mo...

Claire recalls some moments as a tour guide intern in France. Brigitte is a kid from the village and is an old soul and wise one too even though she is much younger than any of the tour guides in this group of friends. There are nine young women in the group and they all intend on being a 'big sister' to Brigitte or even better, a CoolAunt. Brigitte surprises them all with her stories and local wisdom and at the end of the day they wonder who is leading whom? Have they formed a su...

The art of being fully in the moment - on a long awaited get together Laurente and Claire get into a conversation about lingering. What they think of when they engage in lingering - how and when to do it, define it and perfect the art of lingering.

Season III opens with a Special Edition - A Letter From Claire to the Readers, Listeners and Followers of YourCoolAunts - All of the Nieces, Aunts and Friends out there in the world of CoolAunts. Claire tells us how her diary became a podcast with the help of Sam&Ted.

Claire and friends - CoolAunt admirers all - regularly get together for dinner at their favorite restaurant. There's always someone new joining the group, so the notion of CoolAunts needs to be explained - or does it? Doesn't everyone have a CoolAunt?

Claire spends another Sunday morning at Laurente's NYC townhouse and once again learns something new about Laurente and herself. The lesson for Claire is a reminder to be open, seek out new things or change - and most of all - never make assumptions concerning Laurente.

Claire always admired her mother's knitting skill but never learned until now. She sets out to find a way to start knitting and finds the math and community alongside of the craft.