Over the past few weeks, I've shared a posts from a few brands that I genuinely love: a really good pair of boots that I wear just about every day, and a leather tote that I also use every day. And I received a few negative comments, stating that I'm...
My high school senior quote was "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." A nod to my just-rebellious-enough streak at a conservative Catholic high school, it was my favorite line from "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel--a...
I try to make gratitude a habit: to write down the things that I'm grateful for in a notebook and tell the people I love that I love them and to send thank-you notes in the mail. I want to make it something of the everyday instead of just a...
The other day, a friend posted a definition of sonder on his Facebook page: "n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited...
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...
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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.