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Living Between Two Flooding Rivers in Lyon
Flood season in Lyon, signs of recovery, and the sound of early non-Paris French punk
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The Ground Beneath Your Food
Soil keeps records long after people forget — food, history, and the quiet persistence of systems beneath everyday life.
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What Changed While We Weren’t Looking
Notes from western France on false starts, shifting cues, and the land’s quiet reorganization.
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Why France Can’t Leave Its Landscape Alone
How France learned to love order — and what it’s relearning now
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When the Countryside Goes Quiet in France
On learning to hear what’s missing in France
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Venice, Above the Waterline
What happens to a city that no longer adapts—but still dazzles
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Another Strike, Another Long Walk
France, strikes, imposter syndrome, and what to do when things don’t go as planned—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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Cheap Ingredients, Expensive Lessons
What patience teaches in the kitchen — and everywhere else.
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Signs of living in the city
Laundry lines and crumbling facades in Venice, Italy
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The Small Miracle of Bongarant
Chapels, memory, and the strange history of color
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Associations, Calendars, and the Rhythm of French Life
September in France: The Season of Sign-Ups