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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Dear Pastor Senator Warnock
Dear Pastor Senator Warnock, I am glad you won your re-election! I was in your hometown of Savannah on your election day, December 6, 2022. I walked by your old high school and the project...
Daytona Notebook # 1. In search of Gordon Parks at the Halifax Historical Museum
A 2021 article described local efforts to uncover Black history and revive historic African American neighborhoods in Daytona Beach. In it was a photograph attributed to Gordon Parks, and...
Look at the Trees!
A memory that came back to me as David and I rode from southern Virginia to Northern Georgia on this book tour. I am eight-years old .It is June,1966. We are in a blue station wagon, filled with...
Bookstores are Political
Bookstores are political. Today there are the those that have banned-book clubs and offer space to Trans support groups. They feature the works of Black, Indigenous, Latine and LGBTQ authors and...
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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.
Dear Pastor Senator Warnock
Dear Pastor Senator Warnock, I am glad you won your re-election! I was in your hometown of Savannah on your election day, December 6, 2022. I walked by your old high school and the project...
Daytona Notebook # 1. In search of Gordon Parks at the Halifax Historical Museum
A 2021 article described local efforts to uncover Black history and revive historic African American neighborhoods in Daytona Beach. In it was a photograph attributed to Gordon Parks, and...
Look at the Trees!
A memory that came back to me as David and I rode from southern Virginia to Northern Georgia on this book tour. I am eight-years old .It is June,1966. We are in a blue station wagon, filled with...
Bookstores are Political
Bookstores are political. Today there are the those that have banned-book clubs and offer space to Trans support groups. They feature the works of Black, Indigenous, Latine and LGBTQ authors and...