It's Not Just You

I Wanted a Different Life

Meeting the Romanian marriage broker with a velvet business card and learning what it costs women to cross the right borders.

Sep 27 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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Raising Baby New Yorkers After 9/11

My kids were small in 2001. Decades later, I’m just starting to understand how the city remade us.

Sep 11 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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July 2026

Cherry Season Is Almost Over. This Is Not Just About Cherries.

A Burgundy vineyard, a 19th-century workers’ rebellion, and how the phrase "le temps des cerises" explains this moment.

Jul 12 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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March 2026

Being Very Wrong About French Things (Part Deux)

A roster of silly linguistic humblings—until the vet taught me one phrase I can’t shake.

Mar 15 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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A Paris Time Portal, Then the News

A pocket of joy, and the world waiting outside

Mar 8 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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July 2025

So, you want to leave the U.S.?

Let us tell you all about it.

Jul 27, 2025 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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How to Love Paris When It's Hot. Very, Very Hot.

Oh those 100 degree days in a city without much a.c.

Jul 8, 2025 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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June 2025

What Parisians Hate (Almost) More Than Anything

Hint: It's not tourists

Jun 29, 2025 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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February 2025

My Crazy Ex-Country

On the worry and joy of visiting my old life in Brooklyn after a year in Paris

Feb 24, 2025 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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December 2024

On Wanting Less and Finding More

Paris as a clean slate.

Dec 29, 2024 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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On Becoming an American Immigrant and the French Visa Medical Exam

Oh, the peculiar joys of universal health

Dec 18, 2024 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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How and Why To Eat a French Cream Puff

Plus: Come write with me in Paris!

Dec 9, 2024 • Susanna Schrobsdorff

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