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

How Switzerland Happened to Me

All expats, soon enough after they meet, ask each other: What brought you here?

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthMay 10, 2019family, travel, happiness Comments

My Favorite Cookbooks

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.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMay 8, 2019foodComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: April 2019

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.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMay 3, 2019fitness, health, exercise, postmortem Comments

What Siblings Teach Us

Even siblings who never got past the punching stage gained a lot from the more-than-one-child family dynamic.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMay 1, 2019family Comment

Memories from a Sixth Grader: My Uncle Buck

My teacher assigned an essay about our memories of a person. I knew immediately who I wanted to memorialize.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 28, 2019childhood, friendship Comments

Morning Walk: April 25, 2019

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.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 25, 2019happiness, Switzerland Comment

Stuff Purging and Wishing for Hindsight

I am a restless soul. Too many signs pointed to the need for me to lighten my stuff load.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 24, 2019happiness Comments

Is the Tough Stuff for the Young?

My inclination to avoid the rough stuff, because life is rough enough, worries me a bit.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 18, 2019culture, politics Comments

How to Manage Up

Managing up could solve a lot of workplace ills—and that few people think to do it or realize that they should do it.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 16, 2019management, business, employeesComment

The Mystery of the Dog in the Business Book

The dog story doesn’t make for a very serious case for a very serious book, I say. What gives, Arnaud?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 14, 2019business Comments

Paean to the Hoodie

Hands down, the hoodie is the most important clothing item in any wardrobe. In fact, you don’t just need one—you need several.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 12, 2019fashion, culture, sports, hoodie Comments

Twenty-Four Hours in Geneva

Though twenty-four hours doesn’t do the city justice, a day in Geneva at least gave us a starting point.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthApril 10, 2019Switzerland, travel, culture Comments

How to Transition from In-Office Teams to Remote-Work Teams or a Distributed Workforce

Here’s what I learned from other CEOs and executives and through my own experience (so far) of transitioning my in-office employees to a distributed workforce structure.

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?

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 7, 2019goals, relationships, friendship, family, happiness, postmortemComment

What Blogs Do You Read?

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.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 6, 2019reading, writing, travel, cultureComment

Spring in Lausanne: Thirty-Six Hours of Weather Surprises

We had a spring weather adventure in Switzerland!

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 5, 2019Switzerland, LausanneComment