This past Sunday I had one item on my to do list: Buy a new pair of jeans for my upcoming trip to Japan. It should have been an easy task, but I live in France, where things are rarely easy and never simple. That’s why I wasn’t exactly surprised to discover that the mall …

I’m going to tell you the story of how I once tried to make an appointment to renew my visa in France. Should be simple, right? Wrong. Strap in. This is going to be a long one. It actually did start out simple because the website was very clear. Two months before the expiration of …

Living in a foreign country gives you the chance to really get to know and understand a different culture and how its people think. Since I moved to France, I feel like I could write a book about the French way of doing things, because things certainly are done differently here. Not better or worse, …

Let me tell you the story of a city called Paris. Or more specifically, how I came to call this gorgeous city my home. In 2013, while sitting in a hotel room in Aberdeen, Scotland, I made a flash decision to move to Paris. At that point I wasn’t exactly thrilled with the direction my …