In this state travel isn't celebration but a kind of mourning, a way of dissipating yourself. He moves around from one place to another, not driven by curiosity but by the bored anguish of staying still.So writes Damon Galgut in In a Strange Room (Europa Editions), a 2010 … [Read more...]
Magasins Reunis in Hanoi
When Ali Swanson guest blogged yesterday, she sent me a couple of images of the old Magasins Reunis building in Hanoi. For the life of me, I couldn't successfully embed the link in the text.So here's one of those images.It was quite a beauty even in black and white … [Read more...]
Guest blog post about HaNoi, 1992
I'm so excited to share with you this guest blog post from the phenomenal Ali Swanson--world traveler, health-care provider extraordinaire, and dear friend. Here she writes about when she lived in Vietnam, long before the US and Vietnam normalized relations. Here's Ali:During … [Read more...]
Book of the week–First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria
After reading Robyn Scott's memoir last week, I felt anxious to start another book about Africa. But I wanted one that was a little more upbeat (which certainly isn't a complaint about Scott's book; I thoroughly loved it and am still thinking about it).Enter Eve … [Read more...]
Picnic at Shinrin Koen, 1964
I came across this image early on in my slide scanning project, but I've often thought back to it 500 slides later.My mom took this photo around Halloween 1964 at her school picnic at Shinrin Koen (which translates into forest park). She'd been teaching at the Nagoya … [Read more...]
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