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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.
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Sri Lanka: Hard and Hopeful Land.
I come from Minnesota. USA, a region of the world where February is so cold, artists create shanties on frozen lakes, and people flock to see their creations. They build ice castles and call...
Chaos, Order, and the Desire to be Free: Egypt.
"For the ancient Egyptians, the universe was composed of dualities: fertile and barren, life and death, order and chaos." Andrew Humphreys, Cairo and the Nile, Eyewitness Travel. 2009. "A new...
Letting Wounds Speak. Turkey.
On the waterfront in Kadiköy, on the Asian side of Istanbul, in the November afternoon sun, a musician with a man-bun and beard plays on an electrified acoustic guitar. Old men and...
Lilacs in October: A Short Return to Minneapolis, 2024.
In Tom Wolfe’s 1940 autobiographical novel, You Can't Go Home Again, a young white man moves to New York City and then returns to the South, where he no longer feels like he belongs. I was assigned...
Welcome!
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.
Sri Lanka: Hard and Hopeful Land.
I come from Minnesota. USA, a region of the world where February is so cold, artists create shanties on frozen lakes, and people flock to see their creations. They build ice castles and call...
Chaos, Order, and the Desire to be Free: Egypt.
"For the ancient Egyptians, the universe was composed of dualities: fertile and barren, life and death, order and chaos." Andrew Humphreys, Cairo and the Nile, Eyewitness Travel. 2009. "A new...
Letting Wounds Speak. Turkey.
On the waterfront in Kadiköy, on the Asian side of Istanbul, in the November afternoon sun, a musician with a man-bun and beard plays on an electrified acoustic guitar. Old men and...
Lilacs in October: A Short Return to Minneapolis, 2024.
In Tom Wolfe’s 1940 autobiographical novel, You Can't Go Home Again, a young white man moves to New York City and then returns to the South, where he no longer feels like he belongs. I was assigned...