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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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May 2025:

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Leaving a Note of Thanks

April 19, 2022
Tags: dubai, memorial, expo, nation, holiday, war
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The Living Room

July 04, 2020
Tags: interior scene, California, personal, holiday, evangelicalism
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The Sacred Grove

April 06, 2020
Tags: Sierra Leone, forest, tree, islam, missionary, sacred space, holiday
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The Language of Relgion

February 27, 2019
Tags: Senegal, religion, symbols, language, sign, holiday, zawia
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Bastille Day, Senegal

January 22, 2019
Tags: Senegal, france, street scene, nation, symbols, flag, holiday
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The Mall as Institution

December 21, 2018
Tags: Senegal, mall, modernism, architecture, consumerism, cars, holiday, symbols, globalization
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Imagining the Creator

August 19, 2018
Tags: wisconsin, outsider art, art, holiday, american culture
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An Obsessive Christmas

August 17, 2018
Tags: wisconsin, holiday, art, outsider art, house
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Pulsing Lights on Christmas Eve

August 17, 2018
Tags: wisconsin, holiday, american culture, outsider art, public art, house
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Christmas Displays

August 17, 2018
Tags: outsider art, art, creativity, corporations, american culture, holiday, house