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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:

dantebio.jpg taiwan.jpg layli.jpg dantepoet.jpg vitadante.jpg bernard.jpeg education.jpg

capitalism

Global Pleasures

July 22, 2024
Tags: cairo, globalization, capitalism, architecture, colonialism

Picturesque Statues

January 27, 2024
Tags: shrine, New York, mary, money, capitalism, sacred space

Watery Diamonds

March 22, 2023
Tags: Thoreau, lake, nature, capitalism, jewelry, water

Heroic Sheikhs

April 12, 2022
Tags: dubai, animation, nation, capitalism, economy, business, desert, sand