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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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What I’m reading,
July/August 2025:

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Our Zapruder Memories

July 30, 2025
Tags: Texas, history, film, sacred space, jfk, city, preservation

The Heart of Dallas

July 30, 2025
Tags: Texas, landscape, history, icon, jfk, city

Strengthen What Remains

December 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, university, statue, public art, history, street scene

The Vantage of a Cold Beer

November 13, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, history, restaurant, memory

Writing the Square

November 05, 2024
Tags: cairo, memorial, memory, history, protest, nation, power

Living in the Population Uptick

September 13, 2024
Tags: place, population, modernity, globalization, sacred space, history

Plexiglass Darkly

September 12, 2024
Tags: Egypt, church, history, Byzantine, sacred space

The Permanence of Mt Fuji

February 24, 2024
Tags: Japan, art, tokyo, mountains, identity, history, postcards

Pile of Rocks

February 01, 2024
Tags: Japan, memorial, preservation, tokyo, history

Markers for Lost Views

January 18, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, view, sign, history, public transportation

Postcard Perfect Palace

January 11, 2024
Tags: Japan, palace, bridges, view, castle, history, tokyo

Two Decade Castle

January 07, 2024
Tags: Japan, castle, preservation, model, tokyo, history

Freeway over a Canal

January 04, 2024
Tags: Japan, history, preservation, tokyo, modernity

The Powerful Well

December 28, 2023
Tags: Japan, water, religion, garden, history, sacred space

The Modern Emperor

December 22, 2023
Tags: Japan, shrine, story, history, modernity, sign
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