The first time I participated in Zen meditation, at a 1980s retreat for...
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I became enamored of Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1980s, while living in Tokyo...
It’s only 200 miles long, but Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright Trail covers more than...
I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,...
With its powerful front claws, spindly legs, antennae, and hard shell, the American Lobster...
Something about the bracing smell of salt water, the plaintive cry of gulls, and...
People always ask which Japanese city is the most important to visit, and my...
I didn’t appreciate what I was seeing as I walked the stone streets of...
The world of Japanese sake is so huge, that learning about the famous sake...
Nothing heralds the birth of spring more joyously than Japan’s cherry trees. Bursting forth...
I don’t remember much about my first visit to Granada as a year-abroad college...
Souvenir stems from the French verb to remember, which is exactly what I do...
I was wandering around Mocagua, one of many Indigenous villages on Colombia’s Amazon River,...
My first years of public education, in the 1960s, were at all-white elementary schools...
I was in the Italian village of my dreams, and yet I couldn’t sleep....
The sky was a striking blue and the air was hot and dry as...
Have you ever gone on vacation but, when you get there, find yourself following...
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to The Henry Ford, a 250-acre complex in...
Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of the...
Every city changes with the passage of time, but it’s hard to imagine a...
There’s never been an Olympics like this one. Delayed a year because of the...
If you were Black living in Tulsa 100 years ago, chances are you lived...
