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Some helpful info on what it’s like getting a consular report of birth abroad if you happen to have a baby as an American living in France. Spoiler alert: don’t bring a laptop.
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The Mark Rothko exhibition at The Foundation Louis Vuitton was lovely and you should definitely go see it even though it’s designed for the masses.
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Christmas gifts to buy in Paris for your family back home in the US.
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Like many things in France, hosting Thanksgiving may not be easy, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
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They’ve ranged from wonderful to absentee, rude to overly touchy. Somehow I finished level A2.3 with their help, meaning I can order at a restaurant in French, and not much else.
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To say I’m nervous about Paris’s partial reopening/un-confining tomorrow May 19, is an oversimplification. I’m extremely excited, pumped, relieved, excited again. I really want to be able to buy some objects in person, look at some arts, or sit at a table when I grab lunch with friends instead of on the ground at a…
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The word “taco” in the name kind of leads one to believe that the tacos are tacos but they’re not tacos. If they were, they would be an abomination. But thanks to a very popular article in the New Yorker, I’ve since had to change my stance, eat my words, and eat a damn French…
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Hear me out: French Airbnb hosts sometimes come across like desperate animated candlesticks. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just different.
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If it isn’t written down, analyzed, and delivered with a lovely little narrative bow on it, full metaphors and all, did it actually happen? I’ve given up journals before during hard times in an attempt to reject reality, a tactic that both works and doesn’t. On the one hand, there is no written history and…
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Ten weeks ago, the idea of hour-long lunches everyday would have terrified me. Now, I’m grateful-ish for them.
FRANCHEMENT 