Leaving for France is sneaking up on me, something I clearly wasn’t anticipating as I decided to stay at work until two days before my flight. TWO. DAYS. And while giving my parents and sister most of my belongings has proved helpful in the grand scheme of packing, there is still a lot to do and a lot to figure out in…
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Bees Knees & Charm City Mead
I am a sucker for local businesses–especially when it comes to food–and have been so lucky to use Eastern Market as my grocery store and have so many farm-to-table restaurants nearby. A few months ago, I began hearing buzz (see what I did there) about Charm City Meadworks, a local meadery based in Baltimore. My friend Andrew and his friend…
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My Kind of Town
Yesterday was a foggy day in Washington. But the gloominess of the forecast was made a bit brighter by a day off work, the birth of my newest tiniest little friend Calder, and another item checked off my bucket list. Pursuant with my bucket list, I climbed (ok elevator-ed) to the top of the Washington Monument. When I moved to…
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What I'm Reading: Kindle Edition
With a more than 30-hour voyage in front of me (including an 18-hour layover and 3 + hour train ride) I have been trying to stock my Kindle as much as possible. My attention span for plane rides is a small one, so this won’t be the time to start re-reading Dostoevsky or the free Anna Karenina I downloaded, but…
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Anne's Going to France: FAQs
Yesterday, I announced that next month I am moving to France! But, if you’re anything like my parents, you have at least a thousand questions. I’ve tried to compile all the questions people have asked me here: What are you going to do there? I was accepted into the Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF) in the Academie d’Aix-Marseille. I have…
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