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Watching Gaza
On ceasefire, condemnations, and the deterioration of language.
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Recapturing memories in a place I loved before: a fool's quest?
On revisiting Nusa Penida, now that it's become a popular destination for crowds of daytrippers from mainland Bali. (Really an essay about rethinking…
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Photodrop: Glimpses of KL, 2015-
Some of these places you won't ever see this way again.
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Homing pigeon
A personal journey through the Chinatowns of Kolkata, London, and Guatemala City.
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Eating with other people's families
Thinking about everyday feasts and reunions, surprising human connections, and the lives that happened before us.
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Remembering Sanmao, the Taiwanese travel writer who lived in the desert
She was born some eighty years ago today.
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Meeting the year ahead
No real resolutions, as usual, but I'm hoping to reframe my perspective with a little help from writers and artists who have echoed my desires.
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Writing about the vivid “waving” frog that vanished suddenly
An ode to the Chiriqui harlequin frog, and how to think and tell stories about species extinctions.
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Out on my own again
It's been a while since, and it took me just a bit of time to feel like my old self.
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Ways of Writing
Can travel writing be redeemed? An essay based on a reading of Tim Hannigan's Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre.
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Waggle dancing
A tentative first step in discovering new stories for the table: on growing, eating, and sharing food equitably in a rapidly warming world.
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From an old city by the sea #3
Studies in minor details: Too long after we arrive, we finally go swimming—in search of a dazzling shore. Plus: a swimming lesson from Mao and…
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