The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But eac...

I met a young newly-arrived American student in France a couple of years ago and she reported having this conversation with her family back ...

"The question "Who am I?" really asks, "Where do I belong or fit?" We get the sense of that "direction" -...

Last week I read this one again and found it just as delightful the second time around.  Here is the review that I wrote two years ago.  Enj...

One month ago I arrived in Japan with a few phrases and a little vocabulary and that was it.  Today I went out to lunch, asked the waiter ...

I will turn 50 this year and I can assure you that learning a third language was not what I had in mind as I get close to celebrating five...

"And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself...