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

When Travel is Just about the Photos

Our recent trip to Florence turned me off taking pictures.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 22, 2019culture, travel, manners Comments

How to Thrive Working Remotely

Whether gung-ho or never-me, anyone who moves from an office to a distributed workforce structure or to regularly working from home will have an adjustment period.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 18, 2019happiness, culture, business, distributed workforceComment

Our Favorite Food in Florence

I wish I’d taken more pictures. In all honesty, my focus stayed on the food.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 15, 2019food, travel, cultureComment

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

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