Before getting pregnant, I had never thought about what you'd pack to go to the hospital to have a baby. It's sort of a strange experience: you know you're going to be there for a minimum of two nights, but it's not like...it's going to be a...
Although I don't plan on becoming a mommy blog, the reality is that spending ten months pregnant was certainly a big part of my life over the last year or so! I didn't particularly love or hate being pregnant: there were some times that it was more...
I wrote the following op-ed that was published in the Los Angeles Times and wanted to save and share it here as well. It's a thing that I think a lot about, both when I'm traveling and when I'm at home in San Diego, and still struggle with how to...
It’s hard to know where to start, where to begin again. Nine years ago, I pressed publish on the first post on this blog, and for the past three-ish months, I haven’t written a thing. It’s been the longest that I’ve stepped away from this space since...
In the fall of last year, I was overwhelmed. I was traveling for work almost every week, a series of short flights that required early wake-up calls and long days of meetings. My skin was breaking out, my body felt bloated from too much eating out...
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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.