#ProductiveSaturday (as defined by my like-minded friend Kate and me): a Saturday in which you wake early and un-hungover in order to clean your apartment, run any household errands and go grocery shopping. To be fair: Kate and I also regularly wax...
I’ve always made New Year’s resolutions. I have written them on index cards and in blog posts, and they have ranged from large, sweeping concepts (be kind) to quotidian habits (floss every day).
I’ve always needed to-do lists in order to get...
At the beginning of 2015, I didn’t have any vacations booked beyond a week in Paris with my mom. I had just started a new job a few months prior, and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to travel much this year. I confided my concern to my friend...
When I moved to New York City three years ago, I was the first non-family employee at ONA—and Jillian was the second. I managed marketing, she managed sales—and we quickly discovered a shared love of pugs, lattes and good books to read on the subway....
"To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."
When I reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn last year—one of my favorite books, and one that I could read...
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Christine Amorose Merrill
C'est Christine is my little slice of the internet to talk travel, lifestyle and twenty- and thirty-something struggles. After stints living in France, Australia and NYC and lots of (often solo!) travel around the world, I currently live in San Diego with my husband, daughter and two pugs.