In this Bonus Episode Michele and Sally have fun doing an overview of the entire podcast. First Michele lists her favorite quotes from the memoir, and Sally chimes in with her usual probing questions. It turns out that Michele had to pare down

Episode 20

Mar 19th, 2021 35m 10s

In this final episode Michele ties up loose ends and draws conclusions from the myriad of exhilarating LoveCapades she’d experienced over many years. What had she learned about love? One lesson is that a real love story never ends. Such was the

Episode 19

Mar 12th, 2021 54m 12s

We hear about Michele’s most recent and perhaps most fascinating and unexpected LoveCapade. It’s an affair of the heart that no one would have predicted, including our heroine. Michele hired a young gardener named Jorge to spiff up her garden b

Episode 18

Mar 5th, 2021 48m 8s

Michele’s mother had been the most ardent kind of dog lover, a sentiment not shared by her daughter until something amazing happened shortly after the mystical trip to Egypt. During a visit to see the therapist Linda, who had just rescued a dog

Episode 17

Feb 26th, 2021 53m

Michele begins by describing all the types of love, and then suggests a new one—what she calls mystical or spiritual love. She goes on to describe three fascinating examples of this kind of love that exists in the sacred space of one’s consciou

Episode 16

Feb 19th, 2021 46m 13s

Michele clearly has big time karma in Australia, the Land of Oz. She describes the Aussies as a charming combination of British good manners and correctness mixed with American Wild West individualism and penchant for fun. She’s traveled there

Episode 15

Feb 12th, 2021 35m 30s

This episode starts with a wild night of Saturnalian lovemaking sure to get your pants in a bunch. Next you find Michele fending off an over-amorous—and married--neighbor who makes late night visits to escape his gun-wielding wife! You can’t ma

Episode 14

Feb 5th, 2021 41m 7s

One day Michele’s trusty therapist Linda suggested they do past life regressions as a way of untangling present life issues. Michele was skeptical at first, but became a believer after the work uncovered a rich vein of intriguing discoveries! T

Episode 13

Jan 29th, 2021 53m 35s

Around the time of her mother’s death and the end of the banker story, high school Bobby showed up at Michele’s house looking pretty adorable. He told her that his mother on her deathbed said he should marry Michele. Where was that going to lea

Episode 12

Jan 22nd, 2021 47m 13s

The affair with the banker Lance revved up, but it was a rocky ride. There was clearly a strong sexual attraction, but since Lance the Lover was married, things became complicated…and often frustrating. Michele had to once again grapple with th

Episode 11

Jan 15th, 2021 39m 25s

This episode is definitely a fun ride. It begins with Michele’s version of the Mrs. Robinson story…only this time it’s reversed. Nick, the younger man, seduces Michele! This Love Capade will definitely make you smile. Next we begin the saga of

A Quick Note From Michele

Dec 12th, 2020 1m 44s

Please don’t forget to submit any questions that pop up from the first 10 episodes directly to [email protected]. If there are enough questions we will add a bonus episode at the end of the series. And…in the meantime, as you finish this

Episode 10

Dec 1st, 2020 1h 2m

We see Michele having a whole string of “international relations” with enthralling men. One of the most significant is with a famous Israeli war hero whom she meets in her hometown one night at the local watering hole. This encounter develops

Episode 9

Dec 1st, 2020 44m 4s

The parade of LoveCapades continues at the beginning of the 1980s. First was a mini affair with the man who created the ski resorts of Vail and Beaver Creek. Mostly a downhill ride. Then Michele visits her favorite spa at Rancho La Puerta in

Episode 8

Dec 1st, 2020 43m 46s

After the heartbreaking stuff that happened last time, in this episode we hear about many happy, playful, sexy, and carefree events that pop up in Michele’s adventurous life. She buys an adorable bungalow and over the years turns it into her ow

Episode 7

Dec 1st, 2020 50m 37s

This episode continues the romantic story of Michele and Drake. It’s intense…in the telling and the listening. It starts off with Michele playing house during the summer up in Drake’s San Francisco apartment. She’s happy with this turn of eve

Episode 6

Dec 1st, 2020 1h

This episode spans Michele’s graduate school experiences and veers into the beginning of her teaching career. After a third stay in Italy, she had pretty much been liberated from her sexual hang-ups. You could say she’d been set straight by th

Episode 5

Dec 1st, 2020 38m 24s

After experiencing a painful betrayal and breakup with Jack, Michele meets a charming young Roman named Sandro. Their story, while enchanting, does not reach the fever pitch of her romance with Nicola whom she can’t seem to find to save her so

Episode 4

Dec 1st, 2020 46m 4s

Upon arriving home, Michele tries to recapture the magic formula that gave her so much happiness while living in Italy. She finds a perfect job working at SRI International, a think tank right in her hometown. Their task is to organize busines

Episode 3

Dec 1st, 2020 53m 9s

Michele describes why Italy is her “happy place,” and how the romance with Nicola unfolds. It’s quite a story. There is an amazing seduction scene in Siena—oh la la. Eventually the two girls travel to Palermo, Nicola’s home city, where they s

Episode 2

Dec 1st, 2020 44m 5s

We’ve arrived now in the college years. For reasons to be revealed, Michele retreats somewhat into a more prudish place when it comes to love. Not until her Junior year does she have a romance with a young Italian guy while studying at Stanfor

Episode 1

Dec 1st, 2020 35m 47s

In this first episode you learn what prompted Michele to write her memoir about love. She describes what love means to her and what forms it has taken during her rather unusual life. She starts the tale by describing her high school romance wit

LoveCapades Series Introduction

Nov 23rd, 2020 6m 20s

This is a welcome to the LoveCapades podcast, hosted by the author Michele Musy and co-hosted by Sally Kaplan. Over the course of 21 episodes, Michele reads her memoir which is a travel log of her life seen through the prism of love in all its

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