Along the way he and his family learn what it means to be a neighbor, a member of a community, and a global citizen, how to treat others with empathy and understanding as they try to carve out a place in this world. The medals were much more commonly known as Pip, Squeak and Wilfred.

Eric Howard Carmen (born August 11, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter. Morally complex and unflinching in its analysis of contemporary life and the things that keep human beings apart, Freeze tackles racism, homelessness, art, reality TV, social media, and parenting with wit and humor. Birth Chart is the freeze frame of heavens at the time of a birth. What they find-spearfishing for food, renting their car to strangers, fixing and selling old furniture from the garbage depot-is that a city gives back the more you give to it. 75 Off Ocean Breeze Waterpark Coupon J 300 off Torrent Magnetic Drive Blender. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart.Ĭarefully researched and vividly written, French Dive chronicles the Freeze family's integration into a culture where large families aren't all treated alike. Polar oceans do not freeze solid nor does the Tropical ocean boil away. They were a family with a plan: to live differently. What Freeze is capable of doing, with his keen eye and even more impressive ability to examine people and cultures, is nothing thing short of incredible. They'd bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment in need of renovation just a couple blocks from the Mediterranean. Eric Freeze makes for an extraordinary travel companion and French Dive is the kind of read that spirits you from one location to another but leaves you ready for your next adventure. He lives half the year in Crawfordsville, Indiana and the other half in Nice, France.In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Cote d'Azur.

He is married to academic and birth educator Rixa Freeze and is the father of four bilingual soccer-crazed children. His stories, essays, and translations appear in numerous periodicals including The Southern Review, Boston Review, and Harvard Review. He has published two short story collections: Dominant Traits (2012), and Invisible Men (2016).

His first is a collection of essays titled Hemingway on a Bike (2014), another book that also celebrates his experiences living and working in France. He writes both fiction and creative nonfiction, and teaches in other genres such as screenwriting and writing for video games.įrench Dive: Living More with Less in the South of France is Freeze’s second book of creative nonfiction. He studied creative writing and African-American literature in the US, getting a PhD at Ohio University and eventually teaching at Wabash College in Indiana where he is a tenured professor. Eric Freeze grew up in southern Alberta, Canada in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies.

French Dive by Eric Freeze