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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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New York

Picturesque Statues

January 27, 2024
Tags: shrine, New York, mary, money, capitalism, sacred space
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A World Trade Center Store

July 28, 2020
Tags: New York, corporations, mall, architecture, design, modernism
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In Greenwich Village

June 21, 2020
Tags: New York, home, Internet, music, house
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A Well Lit Place

June 20, 2020
Tags: city, New York, street scene, books, american culture, home, family
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The Great Empty

March 30, 2020
Tags: disease, New York, newspaper
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Sea Lions at the Zoo

August 21, 2017
Tags: New York, zoo, Life, animals

Thoughts on an Edge

April 21, 2017
Tags: 9/11, memorial, New York, water, architecture

The Drop in the Middle

April 21, 2017
Tags: 9/11, memorial, New York, architecture

I've Seen This Before

April 09, 2017
Tags: New York, 9/11, memorial, architecture, milwaukee

A Physical Holder of Knowledge

April 09, 2017
Tags: library, New York, Internet, city

Enshrining Natural History

April 03, 2017
Tags: museum, New York, evolution, Life, architecture

Lonesome Walk into the Modern

March 30, 2017
Tags: museum, evolution, dioramas, New York

The Panama Canal and the Internet

March 29, 2017
Tags: Internet, american culture, panama, museum, New York, bridges

Mystical Bridge

March 29, 2017
Tags: bridges, New York, symbols, democracy, poetry, religion

Brooklyn from Casablanca

March 25, 2017
Tags: Morocco, New York, city, place
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