My high school senior quote was "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." A nod to my just-rebellious-enough streak at a conservative Catholic high school, it was my favorite line from "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel--a...
I've never exactly been a minimalist, but if traveling long term taught me anything: it's that everything you carry better be worth it. When you carry your life on your back, there's no room for superfluousness. Even though I now have a fixed life...
One of the reasons why I blog is simply to have the space to write: getting things “on paper” helps me to process my feelings and organize my thoughts. I also love having a record of my life over the past few years: a place that holds all of my...
I try to make gratitude a habit: to write down the things that I'm grateful for in a notebook and tell the people I love that I love them and to send thank-you notes in the mail. I want to make it something of the everyday instead of just a...
One of the reasons why I blog is simply to have the space to write: getting things “on paper” helps me to process my feelings and organize my thoughts. I also love having a record of my life over the past few years: a place that holds all of my...
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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.