One of my goals for 2013 was to take better care of my body--the yoga and meditation retreat in the Berkshires was a wonderful start! To help eliminate my chronic back issues, I've started seeing an acupuncturist and herbalist. She strongly...
One of the most common conversations I seem to have with friends, friends of friends, blog readers is what it takes to move to a new city.
I'm certainly no expert, but I have moved to three brand-new cities in the past four years without going...
As soon as I move somewhere, I start wrestling with the inevitable financial balancing act. A step beyond the work to live or live to work dilemma, it's the struggle of living like a traveler or saving to travel.
Should I be spending my weekends...
Note: my friend Rex and I like to exchange "letters in an email" and the subject line here was: I need help. I wrote and sent this email on October 11, 2011. I recently found it in my archives and chuckled at how much--and how little--can change in a...
As we fought our hangovers with Bloody Mary's at the MoMA cafe, Aly and I were fighting not only the day-after effects of too much booze and not enough sleep but also the consequences of moving to New York City. Aly, my favorite Santa Cruz hippie and...
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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.