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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 Fountain of Neptune in Bologna in the grand plaza.. from the 16th century. The logo for Maserati cars comes from the tip of that trident! 🔱

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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colleges

Uncertainty and the Ark

July 19, 2023
Tags: creationism, evangelicalism, education, colleges, comic
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The Real and Ideal Economy

May 26, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, mural, city, colleges, parking lot, public art, identity, agriculture, economy
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Postcard of Industry

March 24, 2021
Tags: postcards, wisconsin, industrialism, river, economy, colleges
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Sidewalk as Belt

March 22, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, colleges, education, identity, public art, mounds, Native Americans
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A Landscape of Higher Education

March 22, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, colleges, public art, mounds, landscape, education, individualism
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Being Individual

March 21, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, colleges, sign, self, individualism, education
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Looking to Another Place

March 21, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, colleges, architecture, building, europe
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Ancient Works on Campus

March 20, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, colleges, mounds, map, Native Americans, landscape
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Educational Value

March 20, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, city, colleges, mounds, Native Americans, view, river, architecture, sacred space
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I Was Just Like Them

April 07, 2018
Tags: evangelicalism, education, chicago, colleges, personal
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The Castle of Evangelicalism

January 09, 2018
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Tags: evangelicalism, education, colleges, Illinois, missionary, building, architecture

Swag and the University

June 29, 2016
Tags: t-shirts, united states, wisconsin, corporations, colleges