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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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animals

The Cattle Drive for Tourists

August 12, 2025
Tags: Texas, tourism, animals, ritual, history, railway, American West

The Reason for the Fair

April 25, 2024
Tags: wisconsin, county fair, animals, agriculture

Foxes Have Holes

January 28, 2024
Tags: Japan, shinto, shrine, animals, religion

The Foxes in the Shrine

January 28, 2024
Tags: Japan, shinto, shrine, animals, success

Digitally Cute

October 10, 2023
Tags: tokyo, Japan, sign, advertisement, animals

Death and Sushi

October 08, 2023
Tags: Japan, food, animals, fish

Symbols of Exchange

October 01, 2023
Tags: Japan, tokyo, business, animals, cafe, technology

Two Kawaii Businesses

October 01, 2023
Tags: tokyo, Japan, business, animals, selfie, photography

Some Unknown Cat

June 19, 2023
Tags: creationism, animals, museum

Those Long Necks

June 19, 2023
Tags: dinosaur, animals, creationism, science, sign

Standardized Cages

June 19, 2023
Tags: creationism, modernity, material, model, animals

Stories in the Mud

June 13, 2023
Tags: animals, museum, money, story, park, ice age

Mastodons in These Hills

June 13, 2023
Tags: museum, dioramas, ice age, imagination, animals

Telling Natural History

June 13, 2023
Tags: museum, family, story, animals, education

Getting Some Salt

June 12, 2023
Tags: animals, ice age, water, park
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