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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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Telling the Same Story

April 15, 2022
Tags: dubai, story, nation, history, fortress, desert, globalization

The Bridge to the Future

April 14, 2022
Tags: dubai, photography, england, energy, oil, colonialism

Classic Arab Life

April 14, 2022
Tags: dubai, ethnicity, museum, fortress, books, travel, leisure

Figure and Ground

April 14, 2022
Tags: dubai, photography, fortress, people, desert, travel

Historic Watchtower

April 13, 2022
Tags: dubai, history, preservation, fortress, money, symbols, nation

Fort and Skyscrapers

April 13, 2022
Tags: dubai, history, modernity, fortress, skyscraper, nation

Pavilion Take Away

April 13, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, nation, architecture, story

Ring Design

April 12, 2022
Tags: dubai, archeology, jewelry, globalization, symbols, expo

Claims to Space

April 12, 2022
Tags: dubai, space exploration, nation, expo, leadership

Women Driving

April 12, 2022
Tags: dubai, Saudi Arabia, women, nation, cars, symbols

Heroic Sheikhs

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

One Kind of Life

April 11, 2022
Tags: dubai, family, business, agriculture, immigration

Residents not Citizens

April 11, 2022
Tags: dubai, citizenship, passport, family, business, immigration

Dreamers Who Do

April 11, 2022
Tags: nation, clothing, dream, creativity, dubai

Unreal City

April 10, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, images, future, screens, modernity, nation, city
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