I think there are few greater trials in life that we can choose to undertake compared with moving far away for another person. At that point, you’re really moving for an idea, for the sense of aliveness that comes with taking a risk and realizing that what you’ve actually done is bet on yourself.Continue Reading
“If Americans understood that the core problem with our work culture doesn’t lie with the pervasive idea that one should always be striving to go “above and beyond,” but is actually in the subsequent idea that those who go above and beyond are entitled to everything they can claim, our political landscape might actually reflect something from which stronger workers’ rights might be sowed and later harvested.”Continue Reading
“On the Trip Map push pin travel map (whew, say that five times fast!), I can pin everything from Strasbourg, France, to Arequipa, Peru, to Queenstown, New Zealand.”Continue Reading
I got together with the French guy who is now my boyfriend shortly after arriving in Paris to au pair in 2018, and promptly spent the next couple weeks (ok, maybe months) in perpetual bipolar romantic hell because half the time, I couldn’t figure out what was going on.Continue Reading
Why I decided to au pair, how I found my family and how I chose my host country, and information on what an au pair is and does. Continue Reading
