american living in france
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
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The Part Right After the Last Part You Said
How to lose your place without losing the conversation.
Table & Foraging
Eat Like You Live in France
Where & how we buy things, how we build meals, and why the small adjustments matter more than recipes
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We Live Here Now (An Update)
Routines, reinvention, and the strange comfort of becoming a data point
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The Hedge Is Not What You Think It Is
What happens when a landscape forgets how to hold life
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A Kind of Resolve in the Absence of Certainty
A year of misfires, weird routines, and accidental clarity—plus a few things I’m chasing in the months ahead.
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Everything I Didn’t Plan For
Found books from charity shops, lost French films, and unplanned discoveries from a disorganized year.
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Ten Feet of Water and Everything After
Living with the feeling that everything is changing at once. Again.
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Cutting through the noise the few Substackers I started reading this week
And why I rarely hit the subscribe button
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Things We Don’t Question Until We Have To
My 300th post! Reflections on why we left the U.S., what France has taught us about noticing, and how food, foraging, and memory keep reshaping our sense of home.
Table & Foraging
A Second Spring in the West of France
Notes from the second spring, and the things that haven’t returned
Oddities
The City as Dollhouse or The Turgot Map of Paris
In 1739 Louis Bretez drew every rooftop courtyard and chimney in Paris creating a portrait so detailed it was all but useless