leaving america
The Alligator-Crocodile Practice of Cultural Comparison
How Tiny Details, Forgotten Songs, and Awkward Moments Help You Build a Life Abroad
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Where Have All the One-Hit Wonders Gone? A Franco-American Time Warp of 1980s Pop
Nostalgia grenades, prom anthems, and the songs everyone knows - at least in France
Table & Foraging
Where the Weeds Know Your Name
Chickweed in France - a humble spring herb, a new country, and the old practice of eating what's underfoot
Leaving the US
Echoes and Entry Points: Learning to Listen in France
Notes on Language, Culture, and Finding Meaning in the Small, Strange Things
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Chauffe, Marcel!: How the Accordion Became France’s Soundtrack—and Then Vanished
From Parisian cafés to polkamania and helmeted TikTok buskers, a breathless journey through accordion history, French identity, and why the instrument still won’t go away
Table & Foraging
Salade de Pissenlits aux Lardons: A Wild French Spring Salad
Dandelions - an easy bit of Lawn to Table Cooking
leaving america
After you leave home: The Space Between Arrival and Belonging
How confusion, curiosity, and French archives help me find my footing abroad
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File Under French Funk, early 80s Boogie
French Boogie, Cultural Fringes, and a 1980s Compilation
Intercultural Friendship
The Things We Don’t Talk About: Podcast Episode 6
Jeffrey Wade Gibbs on fatherhood, memory, finding a home & looking back at home
amerexit
You Can’t Find Yourself If You Don’t Know How to Search
Research, Rants About Moving, and the Real Work of Building a Life Abroad
Culture
Poisson d’Avril: A Fishy April Fools’ Day in France
pimps and mackerels to calendar chaos and devilish poems, poisson d’avril old and weird roots .
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Sortilège - Forged in Flame: The Fantasy, Fury, and French Soul of Heavy Metal
Why France might just be the most metal country on Earth.