The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

"The stars, like all man's other ventures, were an obvious impracticality, as rash and improbable an ambition as the first venture ...

Before I show you  the new digs for the Flophouse, I want to clarify something in yesterday's post. That shopping street I mentioned? ...

A few days ago the hit counter on my blog dashboard reached 400,000 hits.  (That is the total number of hits received over the years the F...

I'm almost finished with a really good book by Alan Weisman called The World Without Us .  It's a thought experiment:  What if human...

In  A Field Guide to Getting Lost , Rebecca Solnit points out that nomads "contrary to current popular imagination, have fixed circuits...

When I was studying for my MBA I had a great Marketing teacher, Professor Marco Protano .  He teaches all over the world - China, Morocco, S...

The elder Frenchling mentioned this on the flight from Paris to Montreal.  I hadn't seen it and so we watched in in our hotel room this ...

"It begins in the imaginations of the people who built it and is gradually transformed, for better and for worse, by the people who occ...

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale." Alexander Pope What do I miss the most abo...

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore the sisters should be occupied at certain times in manual labor, and again at fixed hours...

I think I mentioned in another post that my last visit to Washington, D.C. over 20 years ago left me with a very poor impression of the capi...

Every Wednesday I leave the house around 11:30 and walk over to my church, St. Elisabeth de Hongrie, for the 12:05 Mass.  In my purse I have...

" A building properly conceived is several layers of longevity of built components ." Francis Cuthbert "Frank" Duffy ,...

I once joked that I knew more people in the French military than I ever did in the American one. Looking back over the past 30 years or so I...

Versailles is so much more than that gaudy gilded monstrosity at the other end of of town.  Take the road from my house to the Montreuil tra...

This one just came up on my Facebook feed.  This post is from A Sheep No More offers 40 maps to help you (and me) make sense of the world . ...

Mail and quite a few hits in response to my posts about our Godin wood stove. Here is the story - all the posts I wrote last year about it...