Successful Houseguest Hosting

A successful and happy experience for everyone, guests and hosts, primarily hinges on how well you’ve communicated before your guests arrive.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 23, 2022friendship, family, travelComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: June 2022

Fits (with book notes) and starts (with human connections). Overall, June brought more progress than delays when it came to progress against 2022 goals.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJuly 6, 2022postmortem, goals, reading, books, friendshipComment

Gift Ideas: My Favorite Products and Services in 2021

Check out my list of the best products and services I discovered in 2021, along with a few ideas for gifts that I found before 2021 but still absolutely adore.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthNovember 17, 2021friendship, familyComment

Finding New Friends in a New Place

Going out into the world to encounter a bunch of strangers will intimidate anyone. The good news: The risk of meeting new people pays off more often than not.

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthSeptember 10, 2021culture, expat, friendship Comments

Games to Try and Games to Avoid for Multicultural Groups

I’ve always loved board games—and only recently realized that many don’t work for cross-cultural groups. Fortunately, great games for multicultural gatherings abound. You just need to know what to avoid and what to seek.

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 22, 2021friendship, expat, culture Comments

Month-in-Review Highlights: April 2020

Coronavirus April managed to make up for March’s benevolence by throwing many activities related to goal achievement into the penalty zone.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMay 6, 2020friendship, business, networking, postmortem, goalsComment

Things I Still Love

When reviving this site, I encountered entries from the series a few times. It interested me to see which items I still own—and which I still would call “loves.”

JournalLeslie FarnsworthOctober 25, 2019fashion, exercise, reading, literature, business, friendship, relationships, foodComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: September 2019

When September arrived, I launched back into connection mode.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthOctober 11, 2019friendship, postmortemComment

Our First Hike in Switzerland: Les Pléiades near Blonay

Thanks to a colleague of Arnaud’s and his family, Arnaud and I finally had our first hike in Switzerland, in an area known as Les Pléiades near the town of Blonay.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 15, 2019Switzerland, fitness, exercise, friendship Comments

Chronicle of the Week: June 24 through June 30, 2019

A chronicle of daily events for the week starting June 24, 2019, and ending June 30, 2019.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJune 30, 2019culture, friendship, family, travelComment

Memories from a Sixth Grader: My Uncle Buck

My teacher assigned an essay about our memories of a person. I knew immediately who I wanted to memorialize.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 28, 2019childhood, friendship Comments

Month-in-Review Highlights: March 2019

Though I won’t pull back the hood and show all my inner workings here, this website gives me a good place to highlight an insight from each month’s postmortem. How’d I do in March 2019?

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 7, 2019goals, relationships, friendship, family, happiness, postmortemComment

Things I Love: October 2014

Things I love this October: Felix Doolittle stationery, Guy Degrenne teapots, and a variation on a recipe from Victory Meals.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthOctober 5, 2014diet, friendship, health, relationshipsComment

Saying Goodbye: Last Words to a Dying Man

What should you say to someone shortly before they die?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthSeptember 17, 2014communication, friendshipComment

People Do Not Come into Your Life for a Reason

A real life doesn’t take the form of a neat narrative with a main character and extras superfluous other than their specific roles in the protagonist’s plot.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 24, 2014culture, friendshipComment