The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

I mentioned in a previous post that our house here overlooks a part of the city called Ballard. This area is known for being the center of S...

  Photo from Tripadvisor.com The Flophouse hit the road this weekend and headed down to the Willamette Valley in Oregon to spend a few d...

It still astonishes me that within the space of one working day I can hop on an airplane and wake up in another world. Travel times are so s...

Many years ago when I first arrived in France, I heard my mother-in-law talking about "pierre et terre." (stone and soil)  These t...

The Flophouse is on the road again.  This time our destination was North America and our first stop was my hometown, Seattle.  We'll be ...

I first picked up Raymonde Carroll's Evidences Invisibles:  Américain et Français au quotidien about 10 years ago.  I had reached a po...

This TED talk, Let's Take Back the Internet , just came out and if you are interested in citizen's right, free speech and cyberspace...