Finding a Passion
Posted on | December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just watched Julie & Julia, the film about a blogger’s passion for Julia Child’s French cooking. It has energized me in a few ways:
First, as my friends know, I am passionate about anything to do with France. I have loved the French language since I was 13, and have wanted to live in Paris since that tender age. Speaking French makes my brain change color, I always say. I prefer to think it changes purple, as that color excites me the most.
I also love writing, so Julia & Julie was a double-whammy for me. Julie, frustrated by her job working for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (I remember the fine yet grueling work the LMDC did after 911) finds herself by writing a food blog. The real Julie Powell, on whom the character is based, turned that blog into a book and into said movie. Wow. Passion, even for a small niche, really can do wonders for your soul and bank account.
Having just returned from a trip to Paris with DePaul University–in particular with a group of undergrads and MBA candidates led by marketing Professor Steve Kelly–I have decided, once and for all, to move to Paris. It’s my version of writing a food blog. In fact, let’s consider this entry the beginning of my “turn a new page” blog. While I will continue to comment on the business happenings in the other city I love, Chicago, I will also start to document how I am making this dream come true.
With more than 15 years of professional experience in marketing and communications, combined with French fluency, I’d like to think I have something to offer to the bel pays of France. And I have a European passport thanks to the Irish grandfather I never knew. He is a gift that keeps on giving. I wish I had known him, but his transatlantic spirit lives in me.
In future posts within the next couple of weeks, my dear readers, I will aim to “bring you with us” as we relive the DePaul trip to Paris. It was superb in every way, from the students and the companies and government ministries we met, to the French food and wine. Julia Child and her husband, Paul, would have loved it.
So stay tuned!
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