In the fall of last year, I was overwhelmed. I was traveling for work almost every week, a series of short flights that required early wake-up calls and long days of meetings. My skin was breaking out, my body felt bloated from too much eating out...
All in all: 2018 was a very good year. I went to three new countries (Slovenia, Japan, Estonia), which fulfills an ongoing annual goal of mine (three new countries, including one birthday in a new country--something I've managed to keep up since...
Two great things that I did in my reading life in 2018: the first was using Goodreads. Even though I'm still not a huge fan of the interface, I'm surprised by how much I love tracking the books I've read. The yearly goal-setting and tracking taps...
One thing that has been on my list since we moved to San Diego: I wanted some nice photos of the three of us (aka me, David, Gert) in our new city! In other words, I wanted some photos of us that I could hang in our house that weren't from our...
I listened to this episode of Without Fail a few weeks ago, where Alex Blumberg has a conversation with Ron Johnson (the designer of the iconic Apple stores), and one bit of of it has really stuck with me. Ron is talking about making kindness a...
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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.