A taste of France abroad: The best French restaurants and shops in metro Boston

Can’t make it to France this summer? Don’t worry! There are many French-inspired restaurants across the Boston metro area where you can find your favorite traditional dish, the perfect glass of French wine, and those enviable cafe vibes. Here are some of my favorites: MA-France, Lexington, MA: A cafe and grocery story that recently expanded […]

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Don’t roll the dice: The best board game cafes to visit in Paris

One thing I have embraced lately while traveling is finding places to do the things I like to do normally, but on the road. This means board games! As a solo traveler, I enjoy bonding with locals over shared interests when I travel. Board games create an easy environment to interact with others, whether it’s […]

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Breaking the ice: How speaking French can help you connect with locals and make the most of your solo travel experience in Paris

A little effort goes a long way towards having a positive experience as a tourist in Paris. Paris is the most popular tourist destination in the world, attracting over 30 million visitors each year. To a city of just over 2 million residents, the influx of tourists can be overwhelming. Parisians have a reputation of […]

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Diversify My Reading List: Q2 2021

Last quarter, I posted about my goal to diversify my reading list in 2021. It’s hard to believe that another quarter has flown by — it’s time to post what I read in Q2 (plus the July 4th holiday weekend). As a reminder, I’m classifying these books and authors based on information that’s disclosed by […]

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Decluttering is a bad place to end your minimalism journey

Towards the end of 2019, I finally did something about the clutter in my apartment. I was overwhelmed long before that, but I had no idea how to tackle the problem. Luckily, 2019 was the start of the minimalist craze. Reading Gretchen Rubin’s Outer Order, Inner Calm and watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo were […]

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Diversify My Reading List: Q1 2021

I am reading more books this year by authors representing demographics typically missing on my reading list and in publishing in general. On my Read and Reading lists this quarter, there’s three authors of color and one aroace author, representing three different countries.

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Normalcy isn’t the answer

person working on a laptop, which is resting on a blanket

Last week, I tweeted this: According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, normal is according with, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, or principle. Based on this definition, nothing about our current state of affairs can be normal. It’s not normal for there to be a pandemic… that’s impacting the entire world… and preventing anyone […]

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