The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

I stopped by the salon this afternoon and asked Sabine if she could show me how to put my hair up in a "chignon" so I could be ele...

My eldest Frenchling is in her last year of high school here in France. She has passed the first part of her baccalaureate and will pass her...

I am often solicited for advice about Paris - nice places to eat, good shops, salons and so forth - that are a bit off the beaten path.  The...

This subject comes up every time I have to renew my French residency permit. I just received my third 10 year Carte de resident which means...

One summer in the U.S. my youngest daughter was taken to the petting area at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. The petting area is a place ...

Diverse comments on things I am hearing in the U.S. and French press and in the various EU blogs I frequent about the world financial crisis...

The Franco-American Flophouse is a bi-lingual, bi-cultural family (even the cats understand English, French and Frenglish.) Contrary to wha...