“What if joy is my only metric for success?” – Sarah Jones
I read that quote in an article full of good advice a year ago, and it resonated deeply. Joy is simply defined as "a feeling of great pleasure and happiness." It's easy to think of joy as...
I put up the below photo on Instagram earlier this week with the below caption, and as I read through some of the comments, I realized: I've been feeling the same way and dealing with a lot of these same anxieties for most of the (almost) eight years...
Full disclosure: I'm obviously a little biased to getting more people to listen to podcasts--my full-time job is at Gimlet Media (the HBO of audio, nbd!). But in my personal life, I've also become a very committed podcast listener: when I'm walking...
What a crazy weekend! To quickly sum up: we drove to Los Angeles on Thursday night to drop off Gertie with my friend Aly and then stayed with friends in Hancock Park, drove to Sacramento on Friday for that evening's wine tasting event, cleaned out my...
I tore this quote out of a magazine when I was living in my first apartment in New York City in 2012, and somehow it's followed me through every move since then. I can't remember what magazine it was, and I unfortunately don't even know who said it:...
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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.