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

How to Find Good Walking Tours

No amount of wandering around on your own, even with a great guidebook, will give you the same depth of insight and fun as a good walking tour.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 30, 2020travel, culture, France Comments

Infographic: 5 Keys to Planning a Wedding in France

I wished for more resources when I started planning our French marriage and wedding ceremony. So I’ve created a quick-reference infographic to help people get started.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 29, 2020wedding, France, infographicComment

Infographic: The History of the Hoodie

Hoodies have covered humans for as long as history has covered humans. Could I piece together a hoodie narrative?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 23, 2020fashion, culture, hoodieComment

A Long Weekend of Food and Walking Tours in Lyon

Walking tours galore, food tours galore, museums everywhere, and promises of medieval and Renaissance delights. How could I refuse?

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 21, 2020food, culture, franceComment

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

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