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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,
Winter 2026:

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Clean not Manicured

February 05, 2024
Tags: Japan, plants, trash, city, tokyo, sidewalk

Street Bonsai

February 02, 2024
Tags: Japan, restaurant, bonsai, tree, nature, street scene, city, tokyo

Be Safe!

February 02, 2024
Tags: Japan, sign, safety, public space, children, tokyo

An Elected Representative

February 02, 2024
Tags: Japan, sign, politics, Communism

Automatic for the People

February 01, 2024
Tags: Japan, language, technology, google, sign

Pile of Rocks

February 01, 2024
Tags: Japan, memorial, preservation, tokyo, history

Azaleas in Bloom

January 30, 2024
Tags: Japan, view, TikTok, Internet, shrine, shinto, flower, season, tokyo

The View is Everything

January 30, 2024
Tags: Japan, beauty, aesthetic, shrine, view, flower

Foxes Have Holes

January 28, 2024
Tags: Japan, shinto, shrine, animals, religion

The Foxes in the Shrine

January 28, 2024
Tags: Japan, shinto, shrine, animals, success

Picturesque Statues

January 27, 2024
Tags: shrine, New York, mary, money, capitalism, sacred space

Another Example of Repetition

January 27, 2024
Tags: Japan, money, design, statue, buddhism

Effects of Repetition

January 27, 2024
Tags: Japan, shrine, shinto, design

Bringing a Shrine into History

January 26, 2024
Tags: Japan, shrine, tokyo, city, sacred space

Clean Modern City

January 26, 2024
Tags: Japan, street scene, modernity, city, trash, tokyo, sacred space
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