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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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Keeping in Mind the Martyrs

December 28, 2025
Tags: Egypt, saint, art, story, martyrdom, church, Coptic

Political Structure of Meaning

December 28, 2025
Tags: Egypt, politics, story, arab spring

The Faltering Story

August 13, 2025
Tags: Texas, freeway, google earth, warehouse, story

The Story of Heliopolis

July 18, 2024
Tags: cairo, house, stone, luxury, museum, story

The Modern Emperor

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

Showing a Life

October 17, 2023
Tags: Japan, war, story, shrine, shinto

Stories in the Mud

June 13, 2023
Tags: animals, museum, money, story, park, ice age

Telling Natural History

June 13, 2023
Tags: museum, family, story, animals, education

We Alone Are Saved

May 23, 2023
Tags: creationism, model, bible, story, water, climate change, evangelicalism

Scene by Scene

May 20, 2023
Tags: museum, animals, bible, story

A New Lost World

May 17, 2023
Tags: sign, creationism, story, medieval, museum

Enjoy the North

May 01, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, story, restaurant, sign

Noticing the Decline

April 29, 2023
Tags: UP, Great Lakes, fish, story, boat, sign

Red for Iron

April 25, 2023
Tags: city, mines, building, material, story, UP

Mining Machine

April 24, 2023
Tags: mines, machines, Northwoods, park, story, UP
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