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A blog about expatriate life in Paris. Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool. He is at work on a book about how we define race in America, told through his own experience of growing up with a white mother and black father, and of raising a blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter in France.

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Of Poverty and Plenty

California’s homelessness crisis is a moral stain

Taking the Blame

Should all white Australians be implicated in the actions of one?

Permanently Shelved

Why collect more books that you can ever read?

No Place Like …

Finding happiness in small spaces

The Bitter Truth

A culture exemplified by an over-sweet cuppa joe

Double Lives

What is truth in an un-heroic age?

White Out?

Climate vs. Comfort

How much would you sacrifice to do your part?

Make Social Media Great Again

… Or at least tolerable

Reaching Out

The best way to escape our current political predicament is to keep talking

You Must Be Joking

A comic book, a movie, politics, and race

Language Unbound

How the words we use influence how we think

On the Turning Away

Our tendency to ignore human suffering

License to Chill

Life slows down when you can’t drive

Existential Split

On feeling the pull of home

A laptop sits open on a rustic wooden table next to a coffee and an evocative travel photograph

Too Much of a Good Thing

Relief at the end of summer vacation

Priceless Moments

How having children focuses a writer’s mind

Life on a Razor’s Edge

The hidden joys of shaving

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