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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.

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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

Ein Prosit!

Sometimes wine is the best medicine

Inane and Insane

Is our world crazier than ever?

A New Breed of Patriot

Sometimes love of country means defying her laws

Strangely Familiar

Some places live in the imagination long before we visit them

A Sad Story

Sometimes good faith and hard work are not rewarded

Checkmate

In chess, as in life, there are no guarantees

Building Brawn

The brain isn’t the only muscle you should train

City of Wonder

Venice reminds us that life is full of hope and possibility

Me First

On a peculiar aspect of French culture

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