The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

I got this link through Just Me's excellent Twitter feed and I just have to pass it along right away with a few comments and a rant of m...

Most migrants don't go very far from home.  Well, "far" is relative - someone from Vancouver, Canada who ends up in Mexico Cit...

Last weekend we went off to the hardware/home improvement mecca, Leroy Merlin, to get some plumbing supplies and to return a chainsaw we pur...

After many months of treatment (surgery, chemo and radiotherapy) for breast cancer, the kind staff at the  Centre René Huguenin  liberated ...

We have to stop meeting like this, dear readers. Some time between Christmas and the first of the year the Flophouse reached 100,000 all t...

To watch while you are sipping your morning coffee.  Highlighted yesterday by  Open Culture , this is a "crowdsourced" short by Br...

Overseas Exile has a very good post up about U.S. emigration (Americans leaving the U.S.)  He is arguing that what was once a phenomenon al...