About

Hello.  My name is Karyn.

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.  A typical product of the region, I am passionate about good food, the arts, and progressive politics.  Significant chunks of my life were also spent in the sister city of Paris, France, which only exacerbated my natural opinions, tastes, and habits.

I'm headstrong and independent, and I imagined my big-city, stylish singlehood would go on indefinitely.  So it was a surprise to everyone, to myself most of all, when I suddenly married  without reflection on possible consequences. But not just that, I quit my job, paid off my debts, left my rent-controlled San Francisco apartment, and moved to a country that I had never visited before to become a stay-at-home-wife to a man that I barely knew.  But, given my new circumstances, doI know myself anymore?  Do I have to become someone completely unlike my old self in order to thrive in this new life and lifestyle?

I've always been a fan of dialectics, the examination (and possible resolution) of contrary ideas.  Now my own life is the biggest dialectic to resolve. That puzzle is composed of mundane and extraordinary ideas and experiences; this site will feature many of them.



"Whose life is more exciting than yours?  It's only when you're around that things happen." -- award-winning film writer/director, who happens to be one of my best friends.



Notes:
To protect my privacy and the privacy of mes intimes, many identifying details and names have been changed.
Occasionally words and phrases in French. Italian, Spanish and German may be sprinkled throughout the blog because they more accurately reflect my emotional experience than the English equivalent.