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
A New Breed of Patriot
Sometimes love of country means defying her laws
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 17, 2018
Strangely Familiar
Some places live in the imagination long before we visit them
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 3, 2018
A Sad Story
Sometimes good faith and hard work are not rewarded
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 26, 2018
Checkmate
In chess, as in life, there are no guarantees
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 19, 2018
Building Brawn
The brain isn’t the only muscle you should train
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 12, 2018
City of Wonder
Venice reminds us that life is full of hope and possibility
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 5, 2018
