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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:

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Extending Hope

August 16, 2025
Tags: Texas, church, modernity, road, warehouse

Photographing an Interchange

August 13, 2025
Tags: Texas, freeway, road, photography, modernity

Old New Cairo

September 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, development, sign, road, sports, city

Book Me Now

September 17, 2024
Tags: Egypt, cairo, population, city, Saudi Arabia, road

For One Good View

February 24, 2024
Tags: Japan, cars, road, freeway, sign, infrastructure

What Would Hokusai Do?

January 15, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, design, modernism, city, road

Splendid Isolation

April 28, 2023
Tags: UP, Great Lakes, house, road, google earth

Narrow Road to the North

April 27, 2023
Tags: UP, forest, Great Lakes, road, travel

Long Roads in the UP

April 24, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, vacation, road, view, forest, UP

Identity in the Forest

April 24, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, politics, forest, sign, road, Trump, UP

Pure Land

April 23, 2023
Tags: travel, wisconsin, road, sign, forest

Global Standard Experience

January 28, 2023
Tags: road, google earth, street scene, sign

Sign Choreography

January 28, 2023
Tags: road, sign, books, freeway

This Land Is Your Land

January 24, 2023
Tags: road, cars, identity, travel, united states, poetry

We Live in a Political World

January 24, 2023
Tags: road, sign, border, travel, nation
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