Reading Prague
Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable …
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Jumping Puddles and Onrushing Bikes in Amsterdam
It’s said that we travel to open our eyes, stretch our minds. I wouldn’t have thought this to include adjusting …
Canal Reading — In Amsterdam
The rain is pelting down as as I take my first steps around Amsterdam, the Venice of the North as some …
Doing Desert
There is in Tecopa Hot Springs, California, on the flat top of a small hill, a labyrinth of stones. Unlike …
Death Valley, Spring 2014, A Scent of Rain
Down A River with 16 Paddles
I’ll be in an untethered state until June 10 floating, and sometimes cataracting, down the Colorado River through the Grand …
Laotian Women Dig for US ‘Bombies’ — Still
A friend who has been following my recent trip to Southeast Asia, including a report from the COPE facility in Vientiane, Laos …
Why Did They Kill? — An Anthropologist Looks at the Cambodian Genocide
Among the modern horrors of mass killings of non combatants, from the Holocaust on [or for many scholars from the …
Saigon: Surprise and Sorrow
Saigon is a surprise and still a sorrow. 38 years after the American war ended it shows barely a sign …
Laos and the Legacies of War
When the mind turns to South East Asia and war, Vietnam and Cambodia come quickly to mind. For most, Laos might …
A Monkish Day, Luang Prabang, Laos
We woke at 5 a.m. yesterday morning to join others in Luang Prabang offering alms of sticky rice to the …
Working the Mekong, Laos
We took a two hour motorized long-boat ride up the Mekong this morning. The first destination was an enormous cave …