Publishing deal for new guide for self-employed GOING SOLO
Transatlantic Agency is thrilled to announce that Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau’s (Nadeau Barlow) GOING SOLO: ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BECOME YOUR OWN BOSS …
Julie Barlow’s “The Best Books for Understanding the French”
See Julie’s recommended reads on France on the new site Shepherd’s Discover the Best Books site: “The Best books for understanding the French.”
Suddenly at Home EIGHT: Beginning of the Day Rituals
Suddenly Home EIGHT: Beginning of the Day Rituals In my decades listening to friends talk about their jobs, I’ve noticed people like to get to …
Suddenly Home SEVEN: Let the Dishes Pile Up
Suddenly Home SEVEN: Let the dishes pile up My apologies for the hiatus. In my last post (Keeping the Kids at a Distance) I mentioned …
Suddenly Home SIX: Keeping the kids at a distance
Suddenly Home SIX: Keeping the kids at a distance Working at home with kids is challenging even when school and daycare are running. So I’d …
Suddenly Home FIVE: Why Breaks are No Luxury
Suddenly Home FIVE: Why Breaks are No Luxury In my last two posts I explained how to fend off outside distractions by making your home …
Suddenly Home FOUR: How Supplies will Save you
Suddenly Home FOUR: How Supplies will Save you As I said in Suddenly Home ONE, it’s best to approach the home office as if you …
Suddenly Home THREE: Work with what you’ve got
Suddenly Home THREE: Work with what you’ve got My husband and I love to reminisce about our scavenger hunts. Literally every time we move, …
Suddenly Home TWO: (Keep) Working 9-5
TWO: (Keep) working 9-5 People think the best thing about working at home is escaping the “9 to 5.” The idea of waking up and …
Suddenly Home ONE: Stake out your territory
ONE: Stake Out Your Territory I’ve had home offices in at least a dozen different “homes” in fours cities in three countries. The spaces have …
Suddenly Home: What you need to know about working at home, from someone who’s been doing it for decades.
SUDDENLY HOME Ten things you need to know about working at home, from someone who’s been doing it for decades. For thousands of Canadians sent …
Op\Ed in the Gazette: Hydro-Québec is preparing for the future — and so should you.
In this opinion piece in The Gazette, inspired by our book Charging Ahead: Hydro-Québec and the Future of Electricity, we explain how Hilo, the new …
Charging Ahead: Interview on All in a Weekend
“So many surprises and interesting things in this book.” Host Sonali Karnick talked to Julie and Jean-Benoit about their latest book Charging Ahead: Hydro-Québec and …
Op/Ed: Ontario should buy more Quebec electricity
We just published an Op/Ed in Montreal answering Green Party Leader Elizabeth May’s claim that “Hydro-Québec should be selling more electricity to Canada.” As we explain, …
The Bonjour Effect on Travel with Rick Steves
On his special Bastile Day show Rick Steves asks us about how the French reacted to our translation of The Bonjour Effect, what they thought …
Critique d’Ainsi parlent les Français dans Le Devoir
Louis Cornellier a écrit dans Le Devoir cette fin de semaine une très belle critique d’Ainsi parlent les Français: “Le sujet est en or — …
CES MAUDITS FRANÇAIS QUI SAVENT SI BIEN «PERLER»
La revue Avenues a bien aimé Ainsi parlent les Français. Ils ont sans doute un biais favorable, Jean-Benoit étant un de leurs chroniqueurs…
Julie interviewed in BBC Story: Why the French don’t Show Excitement
Julie was interview for this BBC story exploring how the concept of “excitement” doesn’t translate into French. “Verbally, ‘I’m so excited’ is sort of a …
The Useless French Language and Why We Learn it
The Bonjour Effect is quote at length in this essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, on what drives us to want to master …