Lifestyle

When Dr. Bobbi French left her career behind and moved to France with her husband Neil to begin a new life, she started a blog about her experiences that has now become a book. Part of her adventure involved learning the local language . . . sort of, as she describes in this excerpt.

Standing in her kitchen one chilly February morning three years ago, Dr. Bobbi French found herself at a crossroads. Dr. French, an adolescent psychiatrist, was the chief of inpatient services at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax. She had just wound up an intense project involving a complete overhaul of a troubled unit. The work had been part of a year-long contract, and she now had to decide whether to sign on for another year.“I was obviously having some kind of mid-life mayhem, and I think it was just the fact that I wasn’t getting any younger. And I thought, ‘If I don’t do this now, I’ll sign another contract and I will never ever think to do it again. I’ll never have the courage to do it again.’ ”

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