Month-in-Review Highlights: December 2019

Reviewing December becomes a review of the year in full and a self-assessment of progress against global goals for not just the year, but for the long term.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 16, 2020postmortem, goals, writing, businessComment

What Changed about Me in the 2010s

I can’t predict how the 2020s will change me any more than I could have predicted the events and the evolutions of the twentyteens.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 8, 2020health, happiness, fitness, fashion Comments

The Best Books I Read in 2019

To create a shortlist of the best books I read in 2019, I took the best of each quarter and picked my absolute favorites.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 6, 2020books, reading, literature Comments

How We Spent the 2019 Holidays

We tried to spend as much of the 2019 holidays in our festive holiday pajamas as possible.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 3, 2020family, vacation, Switzerland Comments

Books I've Read: Q4 2019

A list of books I chewed through in the fourth quarter of 2019, in rough chronological order.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 1, 2020books, culture, literature, readingComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: November 2019

Sloughing off the won’t-happens gave me the opportunity to go gung-ho on a few other objectives, whether to check them off my list or to finish strong for the year.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthDecember 6, 2019postmortem, writing, reading, exercise, goalsComment

On Experiencing U.S. Holidays in Foreign Countries

Experiencing a U.S. holiday in another country feels like living in an alternate universe. And I suppose I am.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthDecember 4, 2019travel, culture, expat Comments

When Travel is Just about the Photos

Our recent trip to Florence turned me off taking pictures.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 22, 2019culture, travel, manners Comments

Stakes [Pull Up / Put Down]: An Interview with Sachin Nijhawan

“When I do have a moment to think, I marvel at how much has happened in twenty-five years. So much of it I couldn’t have planned.”

MigratingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 20, 2019expat, stakes, cultureComment

How to Thrive Working Remotely

Whether gung-ho or never-me, anyone who moves from an office to a distributed workforce structure or to regularly working from home will have an adjustment period.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 18, 2019happiness, culture, business, distributed workforceComment

Our Favorite Food in Florence

I wish I’d taken more pictures. In all honesty, my focus stayed on the food.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 15, 2019food, travel, cultureComment

Learnings from My Salt Spa Experience

Even if I spoke fluent French, I wouldn’t have known what to ask about the salt-spa experience prior to having experienced it.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthNovember 13, 2019Switzerland, culture, health Comments

How to Work Effectively and Travel at the Same Time

Think you’d like to take a trip—and still get all the work done? Here’s how.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 11, 2019travel, happiness, distributed workforceComment

Florence, Italy: Missed Opportunities

Florence has so much to offer—and people get so little of it.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 8, 2019culture, travelComment

The Meaning of "Who Cut the Cheese?"

Only marrying into a French family and moving to the French part of Switzerland helped me to understand that “Who cut the cheese?” has actual context.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 6, 2019france, cultureComment