Without a doubt, the best $50 I've spent this year was on a membership to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: it's opened me up to a whole world of blooms! Although it's free on Tuesdays and Saturday mornings, it's been great to have the freedom to go any...
If there is one thing I get FOMO over, it's flowers. I realize how incredibly lame this sounds, but I honestly get so excited about the fleeting nature of blooms in the spring. You only have a few weeks to enjoy all of the flowers, and you never know...
The new Whitney Museum of American Art in the Meatpacking District is only a few blocks from my office, but it's taken me a while to get there. It's been on my list since opening last May, and I finally made it happen on a rainy day last weekend. My...
Dogsledding was never at the top of my bucket list--until one of my friends raved about it. It was one of the things I was most excited to try during a winter escape to Quebec City, and I'm pleased to say that it exceeded all of my expectations. Not...
After working in Los Angeles last week, I drove out to Palm Springs for a weekend reunion with my college girlfriends: we celebrated a 30th birthday, a new baby on the way and more than nine years of friendship. I flew out on the red-eye on Sunday...
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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.