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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You Must Be Joking
A comic book, a movie, politics, and race
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
October 9, 2019Language Unbound
How the words we use influence how we think
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
October 2, 2019On the Turning Away
Our tendency to ignore human suffering
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
September 25, 2019License to Chill
Life slows down when you can’t drive
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
September 18, 2019Too Much of a Good Thing
Relief at the end of summer vacation
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
September 4, 2019Priceless Moments
How having children focuses a writer’s mind
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
August 28, 2019Better Than the Real Thing
The strange pleasure of sports highlights
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
May 22, 2019Life in Black and White
A new volume commemorates the work of a brilliant photographer of the 1960s
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
May 15, 2019Scootering Around Town
The automobile’s appeal is in decline thanks to the proliferation of alternatives
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
May 8, 2019Disconnection in a Connected Age
On the mixed blessing of technological advancement
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
May 1, 2019A Loss to Paris and the World
The fire at Notre Dame should remind us to see the world’s wonders while we
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
April 17, 2019Family Matters
Closing my distance from a distant relation
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
April 3, 2019Of Poverty and Plenty
California’s homelessness crisis is a moral stain