Sometimes You Do Want American Food in France
Most of it can be rebuilt. Some of it should just be left behind .
The Market Before the Last of Everyone Disappears
Small melons, quail eggs that were already gone, peaches at their peak, the smell of smoke in the distance & a town on the verge of stopping completely
How to Find Power When You Have None
A recording from Keith Christiansen's live video
You Cannot Set a Timeline for Belonging
A conversation with Valerie Rivera about friendship, daily life, and becoming known in France
My Own Private Idaho, Which I Share With You
New York conversation styles, teaching, learning French, and a lifetime of detours became the way I write
Conversations: When France Stops Being the Main Story
A conversation with Betty Carlson about language, belonging, small-town France, changing friendships, bureaucracy, and the point when living abroad simply becomes living
The Part Right After the Last Part You Said
How to lose your place without losing the conversation.
The Cactus Is Doing Great
A cactus outside my house became an unexpected review about the climate, tacos, caterpillars, and how "French food" is a moving target.
Never, Darling
Getting Known
Bread. Soap. Cookies.
A homemade tube of lip balm, a Finnish immigrant, 460 million tons of plastic, and a few questions about what we’ve forgotten how to do.
Assuming France Agrees
There’s a difference between living somewhere and making yourself legible to the place you live.
You Don't Need to Know the Words
Italian versions of Neil Diamond songs are why I write about music at all