Old Age Is A Foreign Country . . . so is France

Essays, memoir, travel stories, poetry, mind musings, random reflections, and often some silliness.

We're telling a new story about what it means to get older today.

The Narrative Arc publishes memoirs and personal essays. Follow for some of the best writing on the internet.

In 2012 my husband, our three children and I moved from downtown Amsterdam to a lovely village in the South of France, where we still enjoy living. Since 2017, I write a blog to share tips of what to see and do in this beautiful part of France.

I am creative and perky and 91 years old. Finally realize I am actually old. Could be a boring journey downhill, but I refuse to look at it that way.

Cherryl Taylor is a Neuro Linguistic Programme practitioner, Enneagramm specialist and trainer for the Elite Membership Forum (EMF) course. She is also a ceramic sculptor working in the village of St Jean de Fos in the south of France.

We woke up empty nesters and said, why not move to Portugal?

KiKi Walter offers compelling memoirs, essays, and insights into writing, sobriety, and life.

If history was a Hollywood movie, the editing room floor would be littered with the stories of women clipped to make room for men's stories

On beauty, grief, ageing, therapy — and the art of tholing through it all.