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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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...
Environmental War Crimes Policy of the International Criminal Court (notes on the International Conference on Environmental Peace Building, The Hague, The Netherlands)
In December of 2025, one month before Trump bombed Caracas and promised oil exploitation that would carry a high environmental cost for Venezuelans and three months after his administration began...
Bremen Apparitions
I began to write this as we pulled out of the bus station on our way to the Netherlands. Ten days in northwestern Germany were hard on me. My body told me so – a painful rash, heart palpitations,...
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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.
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...
Environmental War Crimes Policy of the International Criminal Court (notes on the International Conference on Environmental Peace Building, The Hague, The Netherlands)
In December of 2025, one month before Trump bombed Caracas and promised oil exploitation that would carry a high environmental cost for Venezuelans and three months after his administration began...
Bremen Apparitions
I began to write this as we pulled out of the bus station on our way to the Netherlands. Ten days in northwestern Germany were hard on me. My body told me so – a painful rash, heart palpitations,...