Holy moly 2023 what a year! Although it's been an emotional roller coaster the last few months--our nanny resigning, our nanny coming back, getting laid off--it's been a really good year. It's wild to think that this was our first full year of Jojo!...
I've lived in this in-between space ever since I started blogging: I've never wanted to be a full-time traveler. I love to travel, but I also very much love being home in my own bed and my own kitchen and my own perfectly calibrated routine. For...
When I found out I was pregnant and due in late May, I realized I had to make the most of winter travel--and I decided to take it as a reason to try and check "seeing the Northern Lights" off my travel bucket list. Luckily, my friend Megan was up for...
I wrote the following op-ed that was published in the Los Angeles Times and wanted to save and share it here as well. It's a thing that I think a lot about, both when I'm traveling and when I'm at home in San Diego, and still struggle with how to...
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...
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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.