When the sun is shining, when I'm sipping a latte with perfectly frothed milk, when I'm watching the sun set over St Kilda beach--I think, I could stay here forever. I could live here. I could raise a family and have a career and own a dog here. I...
"Solitude is all right with books, awful without," writes Martha Gellhorn, my latest literary/travel/life inspiration.
The last two books I've read have featured ordinary women who have taken extraordinary journeys, women who inspire me to...
One of the most defining characteristics of Gen Y is its short attention span. We're a generation that's been raised with instant gratification, ever-faster and ever-better technology and an obsession with multi-tasking.
I'm certainly no...
It's funny how we gravitate to people just like us. It's a fact that I learned in social psychology--people are attracted to people like them, whether in friendship, work or relationships--but it's still shocking to think about its application in...
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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.