Maybe springtime really does fulminate new growth—and not just in plants. May 2019 seemed to release new creativity for me.
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I’ll share a few photos I’ve taken of the odd, the bizarre, the wonderful, the laughable, and the shocking—and these only the things I could capture.
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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.
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As I’ve gotten back into the groove of cooking at home, I rely most heavily on a small subset of the original dozen cookbooks I’d considered essential.
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This year, so far, I’ve done reasonably well on the fitness goals—yet I haven’t done as well as I have in the past.
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My teacher assigned an essay about our memories of a person. I knew immediately who I wanted to memorialize.
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I took a long, luxurious morning stroll along the lakefront through the neighborhoods of Vidy and Ouchy. The pictures don’t quite do it justice.
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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?
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I miss blogs and websites with creative and fun and insightful and interesting writing. Sites that tell me stories, whether about the people who write them or the people who publish via them.
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We had a spring weather adventure in Switzerland!
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A list of books I devoured in the first quarter of 2019, in rough chronological order.
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Spring sprung in Switzerland this week. A few scenes from a weekend wonderland.
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By and large—as with everything—the majority of podcasts don’t make for good listening. After much trial and error, I’ve landed on these podcasts as go-to favorites.
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Transition seems like the theme of the past year, and this month has shown no exception. Fortunately—as with all the transitions this past year—the shifts of March 2019 have proved good ones.
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A brief summary and pictures from the weekend when Arnaud Chevallier and Leslie Farnsworth got married in Normandy, France.
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Reflections on our first home in Lausanne. It was an okay home. For a few weeks.
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All of us have items we need to feel complete when leaving the house. Here's mine.
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How was your summer? Here's my look back at Summer 2016.
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