Aging on the Run: Travel Blog
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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Structural Miracles and Sublimations in Madrid
Getting off the train in Madrid, we followed the crowds into the dark city. Our train companions formed a line for taxis, but we crossed the street, got on the right bus to the right apartment....
Cuatro Cuerpos: Cádiz, Spain
Cuartro Cuerpos, Four Bodies. "Check in with your bodies: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual," the online yoga instructor said. Pain radiated down my legs. Sciatica. My mental body...
Against Forgetting? Cádiz, Spain.
One of the books I gave away when we started this journey was Carolyn Forché’s Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. I treasured this collection that recorded humanity’s...
Spain to Tangier, Morocco
In Cádiz, we took a bus to Tarifa, Spain, where the Mediterranean and Atlantic meet. From Tarifa, we could see Africa across the water. There was a small police presence guarding the coast,...
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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.
Structural Miracles and Sublimations in Madrid
Getting off the train in Madrid, we followed the crowds into the dark city. Our train companions formed a line for taxis, but we crossed the street, got on the right bus to the right apartment....
Cuatro Cuerpos: Cádiz, Spain
Cuartro Cuerpos, Four Bodies. "Check in with your bodies: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual," the online yoga instructor said. Pain radiated down my legs. Sciatica. My mental body...
Against Forgetting? Cádiz, Spain.
One of the books I gave away when we started this journey was Carolyn Forché’s Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. I treasured this collection that recorded humanity’s...
Spain to Tangier, Morocco
In Cádiz, we took a bus to Tarifa, Spain, where the Mediterranean and Atlantic meet. From Tarifa, we could see Africa across the water. There was a small police presence guarding the coast,...