Culture & Country That Was The Year That Was A few things I learned while living as an Au Pair Mädchen
culture Mornings in Paris You do not need to have a ridged morning routine 7 days a week to be successful.
People & Culture The Tried Truth of Trying Too Hard We were taught to tolerate failure but don’t “settle” for it, whatever that is supposed to mean. “You can be anything you want and do anything you want just as long as you work hard,” they shouted from the rooftops. So we tried harder, worked harder, and got deeper into a trying debt.
Book Excerpt That Friday Freeling Upon reading the question I froze. I was tempted to know the answer much like I was tempted by a vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles. This one was going to be good.
culture Here Comes the Sun Wisdom can be like interpreting a Dalí painting. The pages of a book become the wings of a bird, the sails of a ship become magnificent butterflies, clocks slumped over tree limbs resemble napping sloths, and elephants show off their stilted legs metamorphosing into flamingos.
Book Excerpt That Friday Freeling The man was disciplined by hunger, cleansed by long walks- a real-life flâneur; saturated by the expat crowd soaking up the city, and motivated by oysters with a glass of Macon.
People The Domino Effect of Making Hard Decisions Big fat Greek wisdom from Stamatis Moraitis and his motherland, Ikaria Quote
Food & Nutrition Grass-Fed and Well Said Standards set forth by the Irish Food Board, Bord Bia require cows that produce grass-fed dairy to graze outside for an average of 240 days a year and that 95% of the cow's diet be grass. To add to this fairytale setting the farms are often family-owned- it's a “dairytale.”
culture Adda Ca Dabra Adda dives into controversy, outlandish claims, and banter on the fly. It is like a freestyle spicy rap battle where at the end there is, well, never an end, and the rhythm continues the next time around.