How to Work Effectively and Travel at the Same Time

Think you’d like to take a trip—and still get all the work done? Here’s how.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 11, 2019travel, happiness, distributed workforceComment

Florence, Italy: Missed Opportunities

Florence has so much to offer—and people get so little of it.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 8, 2019culture, travelComment

The Meaning of "Who Cut the Cheese?"

Only marrying into a French family and moving to the French part of Switzerland helped me to understand that “Who cut the cheese?” has actual context.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 6, 2019france, cultureComment

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

Stakes [Pull Up / Put Down]: An Interview with Sam

Sam said that she’s less attached to where she lives now than she might have been if she’d never moved. “Nothing feels permanent,” she said.

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 30, 2019expat, stakes, cultureComment

How to Follow Sites You Love without a Social Media Addiction

People among us who want to reduce their social-media mindshare have at least a few options for following the sites and information sources they love.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 28, 2019culture, writingComment

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

Stakes [Pull Up / Put Down]: An Interview with Shali

For Shali, the hardest aspect to moving abroad—on both occasions—was losing her extended family and its closeness.

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 23, 2019expat, culture, stakes Comments

The Importance of the E-mail List to Possibilities

No hyperbole here—e-mail subscriber lists predominate when it comes to the health of an enterprise. Why?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 21, 2019marketingComment

Graffiti in Lausanne and Amsterdam, 2019 Edition

Europe’s summer of 2019 in graffiti.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthOctober 18, 2019cultureComment

GUEST POST: Arnaud's Take on Coming Back to Europe

In which Arnaud explains his perspective on moving to the United States from France—and then back to Europe (albeit to Switzerland).

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 16, 2019family, culture Comments

What Really Foretells the Death of a Business

Which is better? A quiet office or a boisterous one?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 14, 2019culture, happiness Comments

Month-in-Review Highlights: September 2019

When September arrived, I launched back into connection mode.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthOctober 11, 2019friendship, postmortemComment

TV in America

I’ve noted a few peculiarities about American television that I haven’t seen in European television.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 9, 2019culture Comments

The Sudden Vogue for “Storytelling” in Business

People who can tell good stories are the most important people in the world.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 7, 2019marketing Comments

Books I've Read: Q3 2019

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

JournalLeslie FarnsworthOctober 4, 2019reading, culture, literature Comments

Stakes [Pull Up / Put Down]: An Interview with Patricia

Five years into their stay in Chile, at the time of their second visa renewal, Patricia and her husband—U.S. citizens—had an a-ha moment: They didn’t want to leave. Chile had become home.

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthOctober 2, 2019stakes, expat, culture, familyComment