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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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Fuji-Q and the Mountain

February 26, 2024
Tags: Japan, amusement park, travel

For One Good View

February 24, 2024
Tags: Japan, cars, road, freeway, sign, infrastructure

Good Old Showa Era

February 24, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, view, mountains, restaurant

The Permanence of Mt Fuji

February 24, 2024
Tags: Japan, art, tokyo, mountains, identity, history, postcards

English in the Tokyo Dome

February 22, 2024
Tags: Japan, writing, language, sports, stadium, tokyo, sign

Left Coast Feeling

February 22, 2024
Tags: Japan, american culture, globalization, California, restaurant, bar, tokyo

The Theme of Unknowability

February 16, 2024
Tags: Japan, language, travel, technology, documentary, comic

The Rainbow in Japan

February 15, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, books, bookstore, LGBTQ, identity

The Coming Digital Transparency

February 15, 2024
Tags: Japan, books, bookstore, china, google, translation, cell phone

Books Hanging On

February 13, 2024
Tags: tokyo, books, bookstore, business

True Travel as Bodily Experience

February 13, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, sign, travel, street scene, google earth

Learning Attention

February 11, 2024
Tags: Japan, model, building, attention, art

Office Windows

February 11, 2024
Tags: Japan, office, design, tokyo, architecture, work space

The Scale of Tokyo Streets

February 09, 2024
Tags: Japan, street scene, restaurant, design

Niemeyer Modern

February 08, 2024
Tags: Brazil, museum, architecture, modernism, design, nature, park
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