Posts Tagged ‘real life’
Your job is to build a cage that can catch luck as it flies by
Perspective and strategic thinking: Learning to catch luck as it flies by, due partly to living 4 years as an expat in France in the bosom of the semi-socialist French safety net.
Read MoreRadio: An Illustrated Guide
A collaboration with Ira Glass and This American Life, all about what happens behind the scenes at TAL and how they make their show.
Read More“Authenticity,” expat life, and (not) going native in France
If you ask, I’ll tell you: you should go live abroad somewhere for a while. The thing is, when you live abroad, your perspective on home changes, and is complicated to the point that “home” starts to require scare quotes.
Read MorePros/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 MoreStudio time
An ode to interns and a busy studio life
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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