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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Social Emotional Learning Circa 1965: “Be Like Christopher”
In Mrs. Macintosh’s second grade class at the Lawrence Elementary School in Brookline, Massachusetts, the October 1965 lessons focused on social emotional health. We were encouraged to...
My Grandparents’ Rent Control Apartment in Queens
At a recent community forum on rent stabilization in Minneapolis, my City Council member argued that rent control was not a good instrument for addressing poverty or racism because it also benefits...
Monumental Trauma
In the South Korean drama Rain or Shine, (to avoid a spoiler go to next paragraph), two survivors of a building collapse, interview other survivors about what kind of memorial they want. The...
“I DON’T READ.”
Peddling my book, I keep hearing this confession: I don’t read. I can’t read. I am not a reader. At a table on Lake Street in Minneapolis a man said, “I can’t believe I’m telling you this. I...
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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.
Social Emotional Learning Circa 1965: “Be Like Christopher”
In Mrs. Macintosh’s second grade class at the Lawrence Elementary School in Brookline, Massachusetts, the October 1965 lessons focused on social emotional health. We were encouraged to...
My Grandparents’ Rent Control Apartment in Queens
At a recent community forum on rent stabilization in Minneapolis, my City Council member argued that rent control was not a good instrument for addressing poverty or racism because it also benefits...
Monumental Trauma
In the South Korean drama Rain or Shine, (to avoid a spoiler go to next paragraph), two survivors of a building collapse, interview other survivors about what kind of memorial they want. The...
“I DON’T READ.”
Peddling my book, I keep hearing this confession: I don’t read. I can’t read. I am not a reader. At a table on Lake Street in Minneapolis a man said, “I can’t believe I’m telling you this. I...