New Apartment
We bought and moved into a bigger apartment just three minutes' walk from our old one, with a dream kitchen, a balcony all the way around, and our first overnight…
Musings
New Year Resolutions 2018
Thirteen days into 2018 and it's already time for resolutions: recover and run faster, get to know Paris properly, stop losing my French, and — hardest of all — worry…
French Classes at Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle
I enrolled in a year of French classes at Sorbonne Nouvelle — 16 hours a week of grammar, history, literature, and oral practice. Here's what it was really like.
Epiphany (Three Kings’ Day)
The year-end festive season wraps up with Epiphany Galette des Rois — the French Three Kings' Day tradition of a cake with a hidden figurine, where whoever finds it becomes…
2016: A Year of Many Firsts
Looking back at 2016 — a year of many firsts: moving to France as a newlywed, five months unemployed, starting this blog, and running my first cross-country race.