For the last year and a half, I have had a list of to do’s miles long. I have lived out of a suitcase. I have moved from place to place to place while simultaneously checking off the to do’s. In July when I arrived in Provence, there were just a few remaining steps on my journey although they were s...

Over the decades of my corporate work, I have been asked many times “how do you do what you do?” The fact of the matter is that in those moments, they wouldn’t have believed me if I would have told them. Heck, as I write this, I doubt that they would believe me today!

The truth of the matter is tha...

It has been some time since I wrote my last blog which hasn’t even been posted yet as I have been working with my team on building a new website to support the launch of a new business with me fully stepping into more unified offerings based on all of my skills but more to come on that in the coming...

I had booked the tickets back in January. I had made a plan to go back to the states for Michael’s graduation, to see Courtney, Shane, friends and to finally get to scatter Todd’s ashes. I would go for three weeks. When I made the plan I was just going for my medical appointment at the prefecture an...

A few months ago, I was looking at the map of France on my laptop. At the time I was trying to decide where I wanted to look for a place to stay either in or around Nice. I had recently decided to put Nice on my official list of places to check out because of its location close to travel links. I kn...

What do you do when your best laid plans do not easily fit with the new plans that the French administration has laid out for you? You change your plans.

This is exactly what happened to me last month when I finally received the invitation to my Republican Integration Contract appointment at the pr...

I remember so vividly the messages from my parents and grandparents growing up. “You need to be able to do things for yourself. You need to learn to be independent, you don’t want to rely on anyone.” And while as helpful as this may be and I have gotten far in life playing this program, there is a p...

As I turned my journal page there was a divider with this quote by Peter F. Drucker, “In every success story you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.”

That quote really hit home for me since I have spent a lot of time thinking about courage lately. Since I made the decision to move...

Last summer, I saw a short on Instagram, a place I rarely find myself and this short was from Lauren Saunders of Love & Dots (https://loveanddotsshop.com/), she was showing a beautiful mandala that she had painted and talked about how painting mandalas actually helped her find clarity and a new dire...

As I write this, it is the middle of February and my time in Perigueux has been wonderful even if the weather has tried to rain on my parade.

The center of Perigueux is blocked off to cars so you can meander cobblestone walks with lots of shops and at the center is the main square area in front of ...

As I write this, a new year has begun, and I am in a new city but before we talk about that I want to tell you a little bit about the place I just left.

Lauzun, France has been my home for the last three months. My friends Jason and Raina had done a YouTube video about this village on their channel...