the most bizarre and amazing brain trick of all is a feature of conversation with fellow Anglophone expats, in which French seamlessly infiltrates English.
Category: Two Cents
How to Travel Alone
I have some advice for those who balk at the idea of cutting loose and voyaging to foreign lands with nothing but a backpack for company.
Pros and Cons of Traveling Alone
I travel alone a lot, and love it. But there are plusses and minuses to solo travel.
Hotels and Hostels in Airbnb Times
Affordable housing issues aside, there’s also a kind of unpredictability inherent to staying in many Airbnbs that I find annoying
The City: My Improbable New York Addiction
New York City is the only place I ever miss like a person
Worrying About Climate Change From 35,000 Feet
I still commit one of the greatest climate-affecting sins: I fly.
The Restorative Properties of Fresh(er) Air
My personal outdoor-exercise drug of choice: mountains.
It’s Complicated
Being an ocean away from so many of the people I love can be lonely and guilt-inducing, and I don’t know if I would have spent so much time here if it weren’t for Skype, Gmail, and Facebook, my tripartite magic portal.
What ze ‘ell? French Habits You Won’t Find on a List of Stereotypes
Many Americans have a mental image of “French Life” that runs somewhere along these lines: smoking at outdoor café tables, bicycling alongside a river with a baguette under an arm, wearing scarves and generally looking “chic,” drinking wine while discussing culture and art. And of course, all of this takes place with the Eiffel Tower as backdrop,…
Time Travel: Plitvice Lakes, Croatia, May 2014 – Perfectly Imperfect Travel
There is a choice of mindset at travel moments like this that divides checklist tourist from true traveler.
Transient Local 