Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
Pros/cons, ups/downs, love/hate: Life in France after almost a year
The answers to your burning questions: Is it great? Are you happy? When are you coming back? Does socialism work??
Read MoreOn arriving in France (thought, mostly, at 320 kilometers per hour*)
I took the high-speed TGV train last week from Angoulême, France, where I live as of about a month ago, to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. It was the first chance I’d had to really sit and compose my thoughts about leaving my old life in Brooklyn and starting a new one in small-town France.
Read MoreBookends, or, 40s are the new awesome
Matt and I, and our kids, are picking up and moving to France in September, for a year. In some ways, the difficulty of shifting a fully adult life under full steam to a new track adds to the thrill. We will have been parents almost 5 years, in this house 10 years, teaching at SVA 11 years, in NYC 12 years. It’s more than time, beyond time, for a change.
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