Aging on the Run: Travel Blog Alphabetical list by country
In October 2023, my spouse and I retired and sold our house in Minneapolis, MN. USA. Since then, we have been traveling the world. I write a blog about each place, with a historian’s eye and an internationalist lens, wondering how memory can liberate the present.
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Shifting Sands: Serbia in Transition.
Seeking safety and security, we humans lean on things we can control. If we wear this outfit and stay away from these neighborhoods, our bodies will be safe. If we parent this way, we...
‘The Mightier Movement.’ Scottish Highlands
You robbed us of our country and gave it to sheep. Let the sheep defend you. Quote of a Crofter recorded by Donald Ross in The Massacre of the Rosses: An Eyewitness Account of the 1854 Clearance at...
Swiss Watch
“Where you hear singing, stop. Wicked men have no songs.” On June 14, we took a train from Locarno to Lugano, Switzerland. The station in Lugano is high above the city center. Our steep descent...
The Rebels of Lago Maggiore: Ticino, Switzerland
What is it about Lago Maggiore—this lake, these mountains, this air, this space between the Germanic and Latin worlds—that attracts rebels? In 1868, Carlo Cafiero, Italian leader of the...
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In October 2023, my spouse and I sold our house in Minneapolis, MN. USA. Since then, we have been traveling the world. I write a blog about each place, with a historian’s eye and an internationalist lens, wondering how memory can liberate the present.
Shifting Sands: Serbia in Transition.
Seeking safety and security, we humans lean on things we can control. If we wear this outfit and stay away from these neighborhoods, our bodies will be safe. If we parent this way, we...
‘The Mightier Movement.’ Scottish Highlands
You robbed us of our country and gave it to sheep. Let the sheep defend you. Quote of a Crofter recorded by Donald Ross in The Massacre of the Rosses: An Eyewitness Account of the 1854 Clearance at...
Swiss Watch
“Where you hear singing, stop. Wicked men have no songs.” On June 14, we took a train from Locarno to Lugano, Switzerland. The station in Lugano is high above the city center. Our steep descent...
The Rebels of Lago Maggiore: Ticino, Switzerland
What is it about Lago Maggiore—this lake, these mountains, this air, this space between the Germanic and Latin worlds—that attracts rebels? In 1868, Carlo Cafiero, Italian leader of the...