Embrace Being a Loner—Why February Is the Perfect Time
I used to find January and February the dullest months of the year. Now, they’re my most-savored weeks of respite. Especially February.
9 Books on My 2025 Reading List
a memoir, fiction, and translated works
5 New Things I Want to Do Alone This Year
I’m not waiting for someone else to join me
How to Live a More Analog Life: 5 easy, cheap (or free) ideas
5 easy changes you can make now to embrace an analog lifestyle.
The 5 Best Books I Read in 2024
of the 17 I read, these are the crème de la crème
Food Editor Ally Mitchell on the Power of Taking Risks Alone
Ally Mitchell has lived in Toulouse, France for over 3 years, transplanting her life to the southwestern Pink City to move in with her French partner, Gaylord. Today, she’s a food culture and history tour guide for Taste of Toulouse, a freelance editor, and the owner of Nigella Eats Everything, where she writes about food […]
How to Balance Solitude and a Social Life: A Dual Guide for Introverts & Extroverts
Toeing the line between introversion and extroversion.
The Anti-Gift Guide: What NOT to Buy This Holiday Season
Gifts that look good, feel good, and DO good.
How Heather’s Lonely Year at Uni Became the Springboard to Her Greatest Adventures
At age 25, Heather Lucas has already had the chance to call four different countries home. I met her in 2021 in France, when we both moved to Toulouse to do a month-long, intensive TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) program. But that wasn’t Heather’s first time living in the south of France. She’d […]
The Problem with Shopping on Amazon Prime
Why are we still shopping on Amazon Prime? (Spoiler: You can’t have your Amazon package and #eattherich, too.)