This blog….

There’s something to be said about sharing intimate (or not) details of your life to anyone who stumbles or lands on this page. I’ve had many discussions with people (both bloggers and...

Purple Everywhere & Always

These days mark the two year anniversary of the death of Ronan Thompson…. Together you helped me raise $500 dollars for the Ronan Thompson Foundation but truth be told I’d raise a million more if I...

#vacationfromhell (Not Really)

We’re back in Paris, having arrived late on Monday and my lack of posting can be contributed to thousands of loads of laundry and playing the drying rack shuffle game. See also: a.) my husband is...

Paris Through the Eyes of a Tourist

I love when friends come to visit and we explore the city together. No visit is ever the same, the weather and places change, but the elation in their eyes, the widening over the not-so-ordinary...

The Wheels on The English Bus

I really dislike when a blogger talks about a vacation recap three months after it actually occurred, but to be fair, I went to London and then like three weeks later I was in Tanzania. And...

Show Me Your Chachkies!

Remember this post? Well we’re gearing up for a whole lot of travel over the next three months, and I want to collect some knick knacks for your house. You know, so they can collect some dust on...

#BostonStrongPari s

Image via the lovely Lindsey Kent of PictoursParis Monday evening I did a kid swap at the metro with my husband and headed into Paris to meet up with 120+ people to run in honor of those affected...

Six Word Wednesday – The Ducks of Sandy Hook Elementary

The Ducks of Sandy Hook Elementary Normally this is a six-word post (linking up with Toddler Summer), but I wanted to share with you all this amazing thing that a friend from the US shared with me....

Get in My Mouth.

How I managed to not gain weight during Courtney’s visit boggles my mind. There was great lunches, lots of gouter, and then full dinners… because at the end of the day there was still my husband...

The Perfect Paris Sunday

When Courtney arrived in Paris, along with her came all of the homesick feelings I often get. April is the start of birthday season in my family, on both sides. The beginning of April until...

Today is Tomorrow & I Need to Get Moving.

Hi everyone…. I guess it’s been a while since I just wrote what was going on, and because I know some of you care (okay many of you otherwise why are you even reading this?) thought I’d give you an...

Chachkies, Euro-Style

Growing up, like most people’s parents, mine worked really hard, putting in long hours and having only a few weeks of vacation to show for it. For my dad, work meant traveling to faraway places for...

Boston You’re My Home

I saw this on Facebook and loved it. I’m not sure where it came from, and I don’t own the rights to it. I don’t understand why these things just keep happening. I don’t understand why of all of the...

Message Paris Spring Bring and Buy

This is a PSA for the Message Bring & Buy. As a volunteer for Message Paris, I’m just doing my part to share the news regarding this Paris-specific event. It’s that time of year again, Message...

Weekend Getaway – Bath, England

This weekend getaway is in Bath, England. I had an opportunity to take a day trip to Bath and fell completely in love. It was cold, it rained, but the beauty of the city shined through. I would...

Perpetual Tourists

Ah the joys of out-of-town visitors! Ever since FMF came last April, I’ve been measuring our time in Paris by our vacations and when we have visitors. Not only does it make the time go by quickly,...

I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me.

Via It’s no secret that we don’t exactly live in Paris, instead residing in the US version of Florida, with a ton of old money sprinkled in. In the map above, we’re in the area known as “Vieux,”...

First Impressions

I have an uncanny ability to vacillate between misreading a person the first I meet them to 100% pegging their personalities. This hasn’t been useful in my years as a therapist, or during college....

Making the Cut.

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life,” Coco Chanel. My experiences with hair have been discussed here before. My battles against the curl have been waged so many times and this...

Tanzania Travels – Market Visit

This is a series of posts about my travels to Moshi, Tanzania for the 2013 Kilimanjaro Marathon. You can read additional posts here and here. One of the many places my tour guide took me during my...

Tanzania Travels – What I Ate

This is a series of posts about my travels to Moshi, Tanzania for the 2013 Kilimanjaro Marathon. You can read additional posts here. Friend and fellow expatriate in Paris, ExpatEdna does a fun...

Tanzania Travels – Kinukamori Waterfall

I had one full day in Moshi (excluding marathon day) and because I had been told not to travel alone around town, I opted to take advantage of the Keys Hotel’s day trip. A private tour guide...

I ran for the first time in a while alone, never finding the usual rhythm to settle in and enjoy myself. My new sneakers didn’t feel right, my earbuds kept slipping, I wore too many clothes. My...

My Commitment to RUN

While home in the US, HJ and I had lunch out, just the two of us. He grabbed his fortune cookie first, leaving mine behind. The fortune inside was this…. #13for13 was everything and nothing like I...

What Makes a Family?

On Friday night I attended my first yoga for runners class, offered by a kind, sweet woman (who is super strong physically!) I met through Message Paris. Afterwards, I came home and after settling...

Flying Solo

Tanzania was a short trip in comparison to other family vacations we’ve taken this year; I left Thursday afternoon and returned Tuesday morning. In between were two long hauls on four airplanes,...

Writing It All Down – A Kilimanjaro Marathon Recap

This a Kilimanjaro Marathon recap post. If you’re not a regular reader, you might want to start here and then come back and read this. This was six months in the making, so people, be prepared…....

Hi.

Hi. I’m here…. not sure where to begin or how to put it all into words. What’s the right progression, what should be shared first…. where do I begin… First and foremost, I finished. I wasn’t the...

A Focus on Cancer and Medical Outreach

This is the day! Today I am in Moshi, Tanzania, running for 13 charities. While I’m away, I am re-posting the blog posts I orginially wrote for each of the charities, as many of them have yet to...

A Focus on Education

These are a series of posts that have been previously published. I’m reposting them while I’m in Moshi, Tanzania running the Kilimanjaro Marathon. Today’s last three fundraisers focus on education,...