Non-conformity and the intentional outsider, the men who don’t fit in, is a deliberate and recurring act, a choice to never settle, to be always on the hunt for the strange and new.
Author: Colin
Blogging and publishing since 2008.
Expat Manifesto: Travel Won’t Fix Your Problems
Breaking down Emerson’s condemnation of travel, where his argument is flawed, and Daniel Defoe’s manifesto for the men who don’t fit in.
Here Nothing Must Die and Nothing Must Change
From Maria Chapdelaine to the FLQ, tracing Quebec’s enduring identity through the Catholic Church, the forest and the struggle.
Smiling Boot to Little Sparrow: a French Music Playlist
The songs I used to improve my French, including La Bottine Souriante, Stromae, Edith Piaf and more.
Bonjour Montreal: I Remember
I went to Quebec for a trip and now we want to live as Francophiles in Montreal.
Robespierre without the Blood
From bread lines to medical bankruptcies, how the French Revolution and Gilded Age look like the American economy today.
Expat Chronicles 