The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Two wonderful posts up on Loic's blog, Carnets de Seattle.  Loic is a French expatriate living in Seattle, my hometown.  It is always a ...

Do the French have garage sales ? You bet they do.  They are called vide-greniers which means "empty the attic' and I just went ...

A Flophouse reader left an interesting comment the other day.  He is a Frenchman with a family living in the U.S. and what he said touched a...

Interesting article up on the Open Border website by Alex Nowrasteh.  Many discussions about illegal immigration are uninteresting because t...

I have a new love thanks to Yvonne over at Considering the Lilies:  Lessons from the Field . It's called Brain Pickings , "a huma...

"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.  We are going to know a ...

I am so tired.  The trip to Brussels took a lot out of me.  Yesterday Godin stopped by and had a look at our chimney and said "no probl...