Bad Vacations: Three Factors that Can Negatively Influence Your Experience (and How to Avoid Them)

These three factors can bias anyone’s travel impressions and experiences. We can’t control for these variables in all cases, yet we can take them into some level of account when planning.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthSeptember 15, 2021vacation, relationships, travelComment

The Connection between Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

Follow me on a journey of light-bulb moments that took me through an exploration of physical flexibility, strength, and balance into their essential role in building more balanced, resilient societies.

Things I Still Love

When reviving this site, I encountered entries from the series a few times. It interested me to see which items I still own—and which I still would call “loves.”

JournalLeslie FarnsworthOctober 25, 2019fashion, exercise, reading, literature, business, friendship, relationships, foodComment

Starting Conversations: A Refresher

Time for a quick refresher for us all in starting conversations and serving as a worthy conversational partner.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 6, 2019networking, relationships Comments

Month-in-Review Highlights: July 2019

This July, I feel like I made some sort of progress in my French language skills.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthAugust 4, 2019culture, expat, travel, relationships, postmortem Comments

Wedding Venues in Normandy and The Loire Valley

For anyone planning a wedding in Normandy and the Loire Valley in France, read our takes on the venues we visited.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthMay 17, 2019family, travel, happiness, relationships, France, wedding Comments

Planning a Wedding in France

Let me share a few of my experiences to shorten your learning curve. (Because yeah. Organizing big events involves enough stress already.)

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthMay 15, 2019family, relationships, happiness, France, wedding Comments

Arnaud the Superhero: Our Civil Marriage in France

In which I have to get a certificate of celibacy notarized, we coach my brother in the French language, and Arnaud pulls off a miracle.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMay 13, 2019family, happiness, relationships, France, weddingComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: March 2019

Though I won’t pull back the hood and show all my inner workings here, this website gives me a good place to highlight an insight from each month’s postmortem. How’d I do in March 2019?