"What other people think of you is not your business," said Deepak Chopra. "If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life." Haters gonna hate. That's just a fact of life, right? We might not know the...
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...
"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...
South Africa has been at the very top of my travel wish list for a very long time--but it's one of those places that seems incredibly foreign (and to some extent, out of reach) simply because of its geographical distance.
When my mom was 16,...
"On social media, we all want to be seen as ducks, a term researchers at Stanford University came up with to convey how, like the animal, young women want to be seen as gliding serenely along, but in fact under the surface are paddling ferociously."...
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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.