The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Weather was outstanding this week and it was much too nice to stay inside and tickle the keyboard. The cherry, peach, and apple trees ...

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

Is it my meds or is it my age? For some reason I don't bounce back from jet-lag as fast as I used to.  I got home last Thursday and ha...

Sometime last night the hit counter on my blog dashboard reached 250,000 hits. I started the Flophouse back in 2008 for reasons that ...

Now that the basement has been turned into useable space, we've set up our scanner in the study and placed our boxes of old photos next ...

23 years ago today my French spouse and I were married in Paris at Sainte Odile in the 17th. There were two ceremonies that year.  You ca...

It's  la rentrée (back to school season) and what an odd re-entry.  Having dropped the Frenchlings off in Canada, we returned home to...

Montreal is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen.  It's not flashy beautiful - it's subtle beauty that grows on you o...

I recently subscribed to a site that is rapidly becoming one of my favorites.  It's called Letters of Note:  Correspondence Worthy of a ...

Every so often one of my friends here will ask me what it was like to grow up in the U.S.  That's a hard question to answer.  In some wa...

The weather reports are in and we all agree that this has been one of the worst summers we've seen in years here in France.  I talked t...

Last week I went poking around in my archives - those boxes of old correspondence, photos and other memorabilia that have followed us over t...