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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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A Church Founded on Martyrs

December 27, 2025
Tags: Egypt, Coptic, sign, calendar, martyrdom

Monasteries and Borders

May 30, 2022
Tags: ethiopia, monastery, nation, calendar, identity, pilgrimage
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Woodhenge at Cahokia

March 07, 2021
Tags: St Louis, museum, Native Americans, mounds, calendar, ritual
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The Stone that Reads the Sun

September 14, 2017
Tags: stone, inca, art, calendar

Times for Prayer

May 22, 2017
Tags: dearborn, mosque, islam, time, prayer, calendar