Podcast - Now We Live Here

immigration

How to Find Power When You Have None

A recording from Keith Christiansen's live video

americans in france

You Cannot Set a Timeline for Belonging

A conversation with Valerie Rivera about friendship, daily life, and becoming known in France

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

american living in france

We Live Here Now (An Update)

Routines, reinvention, and the strange comfort of becoming a data point

american culture france

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.

moving to france

Subscribers! Quick Video + A Question for You

I may have a lot of ideas (and maybe not enough names for them)

moving to france

Subscribers! Quick Video + A Question for You

I may have a lot of ideas (and maybe not enough names for them)

Podcast

What France Understands About Protest That America Doesn’t

What France Understands About Protest That America Doesn’t0:00/2001× Summer is a quiet protest season in France, unlike the US. In France, protest is woven into everyday life—people march between errands, kids chant with sandwiches in hand, and civic action is expected. In the U.S., mass