View from Rue Saint-Georges
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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The Great Distraction
Why we talk about anything but climate change
By Thomas Chatterton Williams January 16, 2019
Dignity and the Individual
Abandon your grievances and strive for the heroic
By Thomas Chatterton Williams January 9, 2019
An Office of One’s Own
The unlikely liberation of commuting to a desk
By Thomas Chatterton Williams December 19, 2018
Taking It to the Streets
Darkness descends on the City of Light
By Thomas Chatterton Williams December 12, 2018
Hip-hop in the Alps
A transcendent mountaintop moment
By Thomas Chatterton Williams December 5, 2018
Bill of Health
The shock of entering the American health-care system
By Thomas Chatterton Williams November 21, 2018
Naked and Unafraid
A place where women, and men too, are comfortable in their skin
By Thomas Chatterton Williams November 7, 2018
Reaching Out
The best way to escape our current political predicament is to keep talking
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 30, 2019
You Must Be Joking
A comic book, a movie, politics, and race
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 9, 2019
Language Unbound
How the words we use influence how we think
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 2, 2019
On the Turning Away
Our tendency to ignore human suffering
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 25, 2019
License to Chill
Life slows down when you can’t drive
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 18, 2019
Too Much of a Good Thing
Relief at the end of summer vacation
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 4, 2019
Priceless Moments
How having children focuses a writer’s mind
By Thomas Chatterton Williams August 28, 2019
