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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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What I’m reading,
Fall 2025:

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The Magnolia Tree

September 12, 2025
Tags: Texas, tree, suburb, memory, symbols

Lord's Day Drive-Thru

August 16, 2025
Tags: Texas, fast-food, cars, business, christianity, symbols

Meeting in the Middle

August 16, 2025
Tags: Texas, California, fast-food, symbols, region, parking lot, tree

The Political Code

November 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, politics, symbols, sign, markets, Egypt

Post the Portal

November 03, 2024
Tags: cairo, selfie, design, symbols, university

Power Alignment

April 11, 2024
Tags: japan, view, TikTok, shrine, photography, nation, symbols

Disney Presents Japan

March 23, 2024
Tags: Disney, symbols, nation, sacred space, aesthetic, japan, Florida

Aestheticization of the Past

March 23, 2024
Tags: aesthetic, religion, modernity, tourism, symbols, souvenirs, Japan

The Boundary of Heaven and Earth

March 10, 2024
Tags: Japan, shrine, sacred space, shinto, symbols, mountains

Getting to Average

February 05, 2024
Tags: Japan, street scene, design, symbols, city, tokyo

Absence at the Center

January 09, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, map, symbols, castle, city

Chrysanthemums on the Torii

December 13, 2023
Tags: Japan, shrine, sacred space, nation, symbols, flower

Japanese Flags

October 14, 2023
Tags: Japan, tokyo, shrine, shinto, flag, symbols, war

Time in the Dome

June 07, 2023
Tags: bible, creationism, sky, sun, astronomy, symbols, time

Allowed to Disappear

April 20, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, CCC, preservation, symbols, history
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