One of the things from The Happiness Project that really resonated with me was asking what you liked to do as a kid: I loved riding my bike as a kid, and I love riding my bike now--even though the chaotic streets of New York City are a far cry from...
As much as I love taking advantage of a three-day weekend and going somewhere far-flung, sometimes it's really nice to skip the traffic and the crowds and enjoy a quiet weekend in New York City. The city is actually fantastic on long summer weekends:...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been on my list of places to visit ever since I moved to New York City--especially in the spring! I can't believe it took me almost three years to visit, but holy moly: the timing was right. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden...
Full disclosure: if you do not like flowers, you are going to hate this post, and I will not even be mad if you close out of it immediately (although I would be a little sad because as Ralph Waldo Emerson said: the earth laughs in flowers). That...
So what's funny is that I feel like the standard date night in New York is dinner and a show--and yet, in two and a half years of living here, I had never been to a Broadway show! Although I've gone to musicals in San Francisco and London, going to 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.