Author: Betsy Houlton

Photo essay: La Fête du Potiron

During the color starved months of a Normandy winter, I find myself looking back at photographs from La Fête [...]

When I go to one of the two open air markets within a quarter hour of our house, it [...]

If you’ve been lucky enough to visit New York City during the Christmas season, you may have nipped into [...]

As I was scurrying through Newark Airport’s Terminal C on my return trip to Paris in late September, the [...]

There are risks to picking up sticks and moving to a foreign country, and a zillion questions arise: Am [...]

It has become something of a summer tradition for us to travel from our home in Normandy to a [...]

Raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, daughter of a Jewish mother and Anglican father, both [...]

My husband, Simon, is a Master Artist Blacksmith; he began learning the craft in England from his father, and [...]

Views are like faces I have gotten to know over the years. Living in the region of the Normandie [...]

On the morning of my son’s tenth birthday, we rose early to catch the first train to Paris, just [...]

Life is a dot-to-dot. After graduating from an East Coast university in 1987 where I studied journalism, I found [...]

I was bitten by the blacksmithing bug late in my twenties. It was during a visit to a lovingly [...]