Macleod manages to save in a year (nearly US$65,000), more than my husband earns to support our family of six, while still paying for rent, utilities, car payments, a housekeeper(!) and general living expenses, despite her pared down lifestyle. In many ways this is an inspirational memoir of a woman who has changed her life for the better, in others I feel that Paris Letters is somewhat disingenuous. By the end of 2012, Janice is engaged to Christophe, has a book deal and is living her dream. Utilising an Etsy store front begins creating and selling letters adorned with her watercolour paintings of Paris scenery quickly amassing over 1,000 subscribers.
Having found happiness but needing a way to fund her prolonged stay in Paris, she takes inspiration from artist Percy Kelly and his illustrated letters to his penpal. Paris Letters is a record of Janice Macleod’s journey which includes brief treks through Scotland and Italy before she decides to settle in France, having met a French-speaking Polish butcher on the streets of Paris and fallen in love.
A year later she quit her job and took off to explore Europe. She began by journaling (and blogging) every day and devising ways to save $100 a day to fund a years travel. In 2010 inspired by The Artist’s Way written by Julie Cameron and a comment from a colleague, Janice began making plans to reinvent her life. Thirty four and single Macleod realised that despite her successful career as middle management in an advertising agency affording her a (more than) comfortable lifestyle, she was dissatisfied with her life. With a single suitcase in hand, former Californian copywriter Janice Macleod abandons her stultifying career and heads off to Europe sharing her journey in this memoir, Paris Letters. Status: Read from March 20 to 21, 2014 - I own a copy
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