I’ve written these notes truly diary-style, in the mix of the coronavirus drama, jotting down notes, observations, quick thoughts, and vivid moments as things happen, moment-by-moment.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMarch 15, 2020culture, business, politics, coronavirus diaries Comments

Month-in-Review Highlights: February 2020

The “F” in February 2020 stood for family, friends, FrogDog, and French. (Pretty clever, no?)

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMarch 10, 2020goals, business, postmortemComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: January 2020

When only one month of twelve has passed, I can easily feel “on track.” I just set the goals, after all, and beginnings bring fresh motivation.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthFebruary 6, 2020goals, happiness, postmortemComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: December 2019

Reviewing December becomes a review of the year in full and a self-assessment of progress against global goals for not just the year, but for the long term.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 16, 2020postmortem, goals, writing, businessComment

What Changed about Me in the 2010s

I can’t predict how the 2020s will change me any more than I could have predicted the events and the evolutions of the twentyteens.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 8, 2020health, happiness, fitness, fashion Comments

The Best Books I Read in 2019

To create a shortlist of the best books I read in 2019, I took the best of each quarter and picked my absolute favorites.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 6, 2020books, reading, literature Comments

How We Spent the 2019 Holidays

We tried to spend as much of the 2019 holidays in our festive holiday pajamas as possible.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 3, 2020family, vacation, Switzerland Comments

Books I've Read: Q4 2019

A list of books I chewed through in the fourth quarter of 2019, in rough chronological order.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 1, 2020books, culture, literature, readingComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: November 2019

Sloughing off the won’t-happens gave me the opportunity to go gung-ho on a few other objectives, whether to check them off my list or to finish strong for the year.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthDecember 6, 2019postmortem, writing, reading, exercise, goalsComment

On Experiencing U.S. Holidays in Foreign Countries

Experiencing a U.S. holiday in another country feels like living in an alternate universe. And I suppose I am.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthDecember 4, 2019travel, culture, expat Comments

Learnings from My Salt Spa Experience

Even if I spoke fluent French, I wouldn’t have known what to ask about the salt-spa experience prior to having experienced it.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthNovember 13, 2019Switzerland, culture, health Comments

Month-in-Review Highlights: October 2019

By late October, I can look at my goals for the year and feel relatively confident that ones I haven’t touched won’t get completed.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthNovember 4, 2019writing, fitness, exercise, goals, postmortemComment

Arnaud's 2019 Lausanne Marathon

Arnaud rocks the 2019 Lausanne marathon. (Of course!)

JournalLeslie FarnsworthNovember 1, 2019exerciseComment

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.”