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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.

PREVIOUS POSTS

#SelfExile

On waiting for the political tide to change

Carpe Diem

In regret of lost time

Versed in Outrage

A poet’s capitulation highlights the challenges facing artists and intellectuals

History Is Not Everything

There is more to life than what has come before

Strangers on a Train

A new perspective born of unexpected kindness

Goal!

The cathartic spectacle of sport

Tabula Rasa

Thoughts on the birth of my son

Opting Out

On the decision to “retire” from being black

Fathers and Sons

Shaping up for the big event

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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