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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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
Rhetorical Rules of Engagement
Shunning those who disagree with us won’t help anyone
By Thomas Chatterton Williams July 31, 2019
Step Aside
Do we really want to live in a society where credentials don’t matter?
By Thomas Chatterton Williams July 10, 2019
Beating the Heat
Brittany is France’s best refuge from soaring temperatures
By Thomas Chatterton Williams July 3, 2019
Selective Lip Service
Attending an elite college is not an entitlement
By Thomas Chatterton Williams June 19, 2019
The Best and Worst of Times
A weekend trip exposes France’s contradictions
By Thomas Chatterton Williams June 12, 2019
Mornings of Stillness and Wonder
How my son is helping me to rediscover the City of Lights
By Thomas Chatterton Williams June 5, 2019
