Finding Home Elsewhere

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Essays on food, history, and the long, strange journey of leaving home - from France.

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About Finding Home Elsewhere

We quit our jobs, sold everything that wouldnโ€™t fit in a suitcase, and moved out of the country. These are the stories of an American learning to find home beyond U.S. borders. For now, that home is Franceโ€”baguettes, bureaucracy, and all.

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