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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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sand

Let Dry Ground Appear

September 30, 2022
Tags: dubai, construction, bible, boat, islands, desert, sand, screens

Heroic Sheikhs

April 12, 2022
Tags: dubai, animation, nation, capitalism, economy, business, desert, sand

Bounded Sand

April 10, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, sand, nature, planetary, nation

Lessons on the Sand

April 09, 2022
Tags: dubai, nature, desert, sand, screens

Introductory Dunes

April 09, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, nature, landscape, authenticity, sand, desert

Starting with Sand

December 31, 2021
Tags: dubai, sand, history, story, nature, development
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Our Relation to Dunes

August 21, 2017
Tags: nature, geoglyph, peru, sand, oasis, symbols