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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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Appleton close to the shortest day of the year..

What I’m reading,
Nov & Dec 2024:

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poverty

No Staging Ground

November 15, 2024
Tags: cairo, class, city, building, poverty

Work in the Shadows

August 03, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, laborers, construction, development, poverty

Poor in the Northwoods

March 24, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, house, poverty, city

Come to Me, All You Who Are Weary

July 18, 2022
Tags: cairo, statue, bible, Coptic, poverty, jesus, arabic

Signs on High

July 07, 2022
Tags: cairo, Coptic, sign, residences, clothing, window, poverty

Walking to the Monastery

July 07, 2022
Tags: cairo, sacred space, symbols, trash, power, sign, Coptic, poverty

Where the Streets Smell of Trash

July 07, 2022
Tags: cairo, trash, street scene, recycling, health, poverty

Just Getting By

May 31, 2022
Tags: ethiopia, street scene, sacred space, monastery, poverty
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Common Places, Common Images

April 12, 2020
Tags: Sierra Leone, people, photography, experience, poverty, symbols, sign, placed thoughts
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Freetown

March 24, 2020
Tags: Sierra Leone, city, language, poverty, war, slaves, infrastructure, street scene
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Evangelical Bodies in the Way

January 01, 2018
Tags: evangelicalism, missionary, Chile, poverty, people

Buying Time in India

October 23, 2016
Tags: india, transportation, economics, poverty