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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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Stockholm Syndromes? A visit to Sweden.
Sweden's capital is prettier than Oslo. The natural setting, with winding canals and myriad islands connected by walking bridges, is accented by old stone bridges and a magnificent wall of...
Norwegian Illusions of Infinity
We are staying in a town that is a fifteen-minute train ride from Oslo. Our place is atop a hill: two rooms in the back of a house with a view of fjords and islands. We can hear the freeway at the...
Dutch Bicycle Culture
There is a photo of Mark Rutte, outgoing Prime Minister of the Netherlands, leaving the Binnenhof—Parliament building in the Hague— on his bicycle, wearing dress clothes, no helmet,...
Local is Global in the Netherlands
This essay on travel to the Netherlands mentions Minnesota, Texas, California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Ottawa, Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine, Mexico, Germany, and France. Local is...
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.
Stockholm Syndromes? A visit to Sweden.
Sweden's capital is prettier than Oslo. The natural setting, with winding canals and myriad islands connected by walking bridges, is accented by old stone bridges and a magnificent wall of...
Norwegian Illusions of Infinity
We are staying in a town that is a fifteen-minute train ride from Oslo. Our place is atop a hill: two rooms in the back of a house with a view of fjords and islands. We can hear the freeway at the...
Dutch Bicycle Culture
There is a photo of Mark Rutte, outgoing Prime Minister of the Netherlands, leaving the Binnenhof—Parliament building in the Hague— on his bicycle, wearing dress clothes, no helmet,...
Local is Global in the Netherlands
This essay on travel to the Netherlands mentions Minnesota, Texas, California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Ottawa, Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine, Mexico, Germany, and France. Local is...