I love to research. The smell of old books, card catalogs, and cranky librarians are just a few things that I love about research. When I moved to France a few months ago I…

Every year we always make some crazy plan to accomplish for the incoming year. This year, being the strangest of all years, we have all probably made a HUGE list of things we would…

I was knee-deep in Instagram looking at holiday pictures and trying to get inspired when I saw a wonderful post by a travel blogger that I simply adore. There were several pictures of her…

Change for me does not come easy. So when the husband asked me to decide what we should do as we faced a change in our lives I was going through some hard times.…

Oh the smell of magic is in the air, along with the smells of mulled wine, cooked meats, roasted chestnuts, and sweets. There is not a chocolate shop in town that doesn’t have festive…

Since the pandemic started in March, now some eight months later no one saw the escalation of social distancing and confinement. Personally, I was not expecting this level of seclusion or life on hold…

Moving to France really did a number on my cardio activities. I honestly thought I had gotten enough back in Oregon with all the walking through forests, going up and down stairs at work,…

Christina in Paris has a nice ring to it, don’t you agree! I never wanted to live in a big city, like Paris. All I wanted to do was to move out to the…

I love cooking, I really do. I would consider myself a foodie if it were not for the fact that I can not seem to create my own dishes. I often try, and when…

I am not a war enthusiast in the slightest, nor do I enjoy weapons of mass destruction. I am however, a HUGE history fan. One of the reasons we moved to France was to…