When you live abroad, you spend a lot of time missing out on things: the birth of babies, the union of two souls, the showering of a bride to be… and those are just the big ticket items. The smaller things also get glossed over: Friday happy hours, Saturday BBQs, birthdays, holiday parties. You get it… we miss […]
Holidays
The Trouble with Resolutions and How To Fix It
I’ve ditched resolutions. Full ditch. No remorse. Resolutionless. It isn’t that I don’t like the idea of goals, I just feel like convincing myself to do something – now – that I’ve had a whole year to do is sort of silly reasoning. (Lose weight. Ehhh. Start working out. Meh. Quit drinking. Definitely not.) I could have done […]
Define Iconic: New Year’s Eve in New York City
There are few New Year’s Eve celebrations, if any, as iconic and recognizable as New York City’s – specifically the Times Square Ball Drop. The image and tradition is so widely known that over a billion people world-wide tune in and join the one million honorary New Yorkers in the streets of Time Square in counting down the […]