Efes Beer Cafe, Nohadra, Duhok. December 2018 Culturally appropriate bar snacks and bootleg whisky Efes Beer Cafe in Nohadra - a lot of...

Dubai Frame from Zabeel Park. December 2018 Build it and they will come On visits to Dubai over the years, MWK and I took the metro to...

Colonel Robert Magaw Place. Winter 1988 How we found an apartment in New York City in 1988 in one day Colonel Robert Magaw was a staunch...

Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci, National Gallery of Art. December 2021 Winter wandering memories - tales of two paintings From...

Bafarat Cafe, Jeddah. November 2017 Coffee paradise found and lost and found AM, one of my few Saudi friends from outside Abha {see:...

Chiques Creek, Lancaster Junction Rail Trail, Lancaster County. December 2020 The name Chiques (also Chickies), as pointed out by my...

Old Houses, Najran. December 2016 [from FB post: December 10, 2016] "Into the war zone" I think you noticed a week back perhaps I posted...

FUTURES, Artist: Stephanie Syjuco, Arts and Industry Building, Smithsonian Institute. December 2021 St Louis, bad karma, and "future...

Helix Bridge, Dubai Canal. December 2018 Never say never - more questions than answers I imagine if I had been in Dubai 20 years ago...

White Cliffs of Conoy, Lancaster County. December 2020 When pollution is beautiful During those long pandemic walks with my brother, we...

Open Museum, Al Hamra Corniche, Jeddah. November 2017 Isle of Misfit Art At one end of the Al Hamra Corniche lies an oval green space...

National Gallery of Art - East Wing. December 2021 Of memories and dynasties The National Gallery of Art's East Wing opened June 1, 1978, the design offspring of the prolific I.M.Pei. The first non-neoclassical building on the Mall was greeted with much fanfare. I arrived in Washington a year later, so the gallery itself was still a "phenomenon". I remember being impressed by the stark clean lines and towering spaces. The connecting tunnel under 4th Street and its peopl

View from Kaser Al Amwaj, Abu Dhabi, UAE. December 2010 Two snapshots In the Jakarta years, Brian and I traveled back to the US via...

Via Latina, Rome. November 2016 [From FB Post: December 3, 2016] Once again, FB friends and family, thank you for patiently bearing...

Burj Khalifa, Dubai. December 2010 -est After expectations, superlatives might be the next most dangerous thing in life. Post...

Casina Vanvitellania, Lago Fusaro, Naples. December 2018 The benefits of wandering I finished visiting the Baths of Baiae west of Naples...

Old Penn Station New York and Rome Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One...

Dalagan Park, Asir, Saudi Arabia. November 2013 The problem with expectations, the problem with people I must remain true to my...

Ragadan Forest Park, Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia. November 2017 [From FB Post: November 28, 2017] Friday Is Family Day in Ragadan Forest Park...

Dubai Marina, UAE. November 2019 Build it and they will come On my first visit to Dubai, now 11 years ago, Dubai Marina astounded me. ...