"To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."
When I reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn last year—one of my favorite books, and one that I could read...
"On social media, we all want to be seen as ducks, a term researchers at Stanford University came up with to convey how, like the animal, young women want to be seen as gliding serenely along, but in fact under the surface are paddling ferociously."...
The email I often find in my inbox goes a little something like this: I'm unhappy/bored/trapped in my current lifestyle. I want to travel the world. How did you do it? How can I do it?
For the sake of efficiency and maybe for everyone else who's...
Here's what the last couple of weeks have looked like: I'd accepted one job offer, put in my two weeks' notice, went through three rounds of interviews in 48 hours for another position (that was cleared by HR on the day that I put in my two weeks'),...
One of the things I love about the end of summer and start of fall is that feeling of new beginnings: it conjures up freshly-sharped pencils and crisp, blank notebooks, a bright backpack and a brand-new pair of shoes. I always loved going back to...
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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.