Frances Mayes has nearly equal affection for leaving for a trip and returning home. “Houses have always been just about as much of an obsession for me [as travel],” says Mayes, 82.

Frances Mayes is a Georgia-born author, poet, and food writer whose first book on Italy is the classic Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy. Among islands barely emerging from the water ...

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A bitter, divorced writer finds solace and romance after she impulsively buys and renovates a villa in Tuscany. Screenplay adapted from the memoir by Frances Mayes.

Precious Mayes has been instrumental in the success of sustaining operations for Pacifica Hospital. She has been able to develop and maintain positive relations with local and state legislators ...

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The way Attorney General Kris Mayes sees it, the responsibility of child care falls more often on women and may discourage them from running for office. She is advising candidates they are free to ...

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