October, 2011 - C'est Christine

Finding inspiration in other’s stories: Swept and Travels with Myself and Another

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October 31, 2011

"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...

Postcard from the walls of Hobart

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October 27, 2011

The details of a place have always interested me more than a sweeping panorama: those are the rewards for paying attention, for actively searching your surroundings instead of complacently heading toward the next scenic vista. Hobart was full of the...

The ups and downs of a six-month attention span

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October 26, 2011

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...

Making friends: finding people just like me

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October 24, 2011

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...

Postcard from the streets of Wellington

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October 20, 2011

Wellington is a crisp, clean city: laid-back, orderly, vibrant. It's easy to list the adjectives, but harder to capture the feeling: Wellington seems authentic, happy, sure of itself. The anti-authority graffiti that runs rampant in Paris, where the...

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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.

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Finding inspiration in other’s stories: Swept and Travels with Myself and Another

Postcard from the walls of Hobart

The ups and downs of a six-month attention span

Making friends: finding people just like me

Postcard from the streets of Wellington

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