After spending a weekend in Quebec City, my main question to myself has been: how the heck did it take me so long to get there?! It's only a two-hour flight from New York City, but it feels like a world away: between the winding cobblestone lanes and...
Let me start by saying this: I am not as successful as I want to be, and I'm OK with that. As happy as I am with my life right now, I'm the type of person who is always looking days, weeks, years into the future and trying to figure out what I need...
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...
After working in Los Angeles last week, I drove out to Palm Springs for a weekend reunion with my college girlfriends: we celebrated a 30th birthday, a new baby on the way and more than nine years of friendship. I flew out on the red-eye on Sunday...
There are some posts in the archives that are just as relevant now as they were when I wrote them (up to six years ago!). Once a week, I share one of my favorite posts that I still love to read today. Enjoy–and please forgive the use of Instagram...
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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.