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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remove...

This week the younger Frenchling and I took the shinkansen  to Tokyo.  The train system here in Japan is a marvel - clean, fast and comforta...

"Making sure my children are at least proficient in conversational French is a goal I have set myself despite the setbacks. A recent ev...

"Voici que nous entrons dans le temps de l'Avent.  Le mot "Avent" vient due latin "adventus" qui veut dire Venu...

“On July 16, 1882, His Holiness Pope Leo XII had granted permission to ‘found a house of the regulars of the Order of St. Benedict of the Mo...

I'm packing my suitcase right now for a three day trip up to Vancouver, British Columbia.  We're leaving around noon and should cros...

A Flophouse reader left an interesting comment the other day.  He is a Frenchman with a family living in the U.S. and what he said touched a...

For new laws and regulations governing cross-border issues the European Union is really leading the way.  Here are 27 member states with the...

Earlier this week I marched myself down to 10, rue du Général Camou and purchased an annual membership  in the American Library . Last t...

In today's mail we received a note from the Defense Ministry addressed to the elder Frenchling reminding her that, as a French citizen w...

And a very Happy Valentine's Day to all of you.   It seems appropriate to use this day and this post to talk once again about family reu...

Christmas is over and "ça ne rigole plus" ( no more fun and games ) at the Flophouse.  Actually that is a bit of an overstateme...

This morning I am turning the blog over to the younger Frenchling.  She started writing short stories a few years ago and has just finished ...

The title of this post is a riff off the title of an article written by a Chinese-American mother, professor of law at Yale and writer, Amy ...