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    • 2018
      • Heartland I: The Carving Climbing Out of the Mountain
      • Heartland II: Where My People Lie Buried
      • Heartland III: Not My Mama’s Shakespeare
      • American Invention, American Arrogance
      • Mare Nostrum I: Venice-La Serenissima
      • Mare Nostrum II: Roma–In the Shadow of Centuries
      • Mare Nostrum III: The Northwest (Mediterranean) Coast
      • Mare Nostrum IV: Gibraltar–Everyone Wants a Piece of the Rock
    • 2017
      • National Parks & America’s Pioneer Identity
      • Land of Rock and Cactus I: Looking Up
      • The Land of Rock and Cactus, Part II: Canyons and Culture
      • Not to See the Eclipse
      • Bridge to Nature: Glaciers, Slime Molds, and Slugs
      • Pilgrimage through Chicago
      • Castles & Abbeys & Jigs, oh my—Southern Ireland
      • Windswept West Coast of Eire
      • Touring the Roots of Ireland
    • 2016
      • O Canada!
      • Road Trips: America in Miniature
      • The Idea of Waterloo
      • Fish Slappin’: In Search of Statues
      • Fish Slappin ‘ II: In this country, we have our own
      • Fish Slappin’ III: Amsterdam- Gotta Go
  • The Olympics
    • CITIUS-ALTIUS-FORTIUS: Musing on why the Olympics Matter
    • Redemption, Resilience & Resetting at the 2018 Winter Olympics
    • The Yin & Yang of the 2018 Winter Olympics
    • Figure Skating’s Trail of Broken Dreams
    • Olympic Performance & the Four Year Interval
    • Medal Counts — Bogus and Real
    • A Shallow Understanding of Sport
    • Outside the Rio Spotlight (Excerpts)
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On my Mind in Recent Weeks

  • Homo Sapiens at the Monuments
    December 12, 2018
  • The Origins of Greensleeves and Syphilis
    December 5, 2018
  • The Earth’s Wobble is Veering
    November 28, 2018
  • Flow, Turkey, Flow
    November 18, 2018
  • To Freeze or Not To Freeze
    November 14, 2018
  • Bohemian Rhapsody Still Hard to Pin Down
    November 7, 2018
  • The Demise of Ghosts Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
    October 31, 2018

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