Travel
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Cedar Point is for Closers
We had a great time at Cedar Point. Here’s a boatload of pics from our time together. Lots of these shots are taken with a Sony DSC-WX80. This hand-held mid-quality camera that is neither a phone nor a DSLR has been pretty much forgotten in the current Instagram-driven environment, but I think that’s a mistake.…
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Four Short-Burst Videos of Days in London
I think I would have done well in an era of vacation slideshows given in living rooms ( This is not a wheel– it’s a carousel– “It lets us travel around and around and back home again.”) I use Vimeo instead of Kodak. And I crib music and shove as much as I can in a…
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The Hidden Wonders of Brutalist London
I like Brutalist architecture, mainly because it is an expression of human capacity for newness. Having attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Walter Netsch-designed “Instant Campus“, I also have a pretty good window into the deficiencies of the raw concrete mode of creating human space. Everywhere I go, I try to see and…
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Popcorn Plant for Sale
Over the weekend, Shawn-Laree and I went to the Barker Family Reunion at her cousin’s house near Middlebury, Indiana. We had a great time. After dinner, the day-long rain had cleared and we took a walk in Middlebury, and we came across the Wanberg Popcorn Company. I loved this place. It was completely custom: a…
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My Churches of Rome
Last month our family spent eight days in Rome. We rented an apartment near the Pantheon and went all over the city. In the course of spending my time in the city that surrounds the seat of my religion, I developed a desire to be more devout. The idea is so appealing to me— to…