Holding On

I checked my social media outlets, my texts, my messages, and everywhere is awash in bad news. The French debates were awful and people feel doomed, the American government is moving forward on destroying access to healthcare for millions upon millions of people. I meet at least a handful of people every day who say…

PACS Paperwork

Will it ever end? Probably not! I may have mentioned that E and I are getting PACS'd. That means we plan to enter into "un pacte civil de solidarité," which officially does very little other than legally defining our relationship as a household when filing taxes and taking on debt. We couldn't adopt a child…

Social Media Strength Training

On building the discipline to tune out the aggressive American media, and prioritising everyday life in France. I’ll start off by saying that I’m really bad at keeping a healthy distance from my Twitter feed… On an ideological level, I feel irresponsible when I don’t stay abreast with French and American politics, but the American…