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Staring into the Eyes of the Universe
Double Ikat on a Little Girl The eyes of the man facing me opened wide, revealing a fathomless black depth ringed by his sparkling brown iris. The world around me was silent, as if the thirty men on...
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Report from Haiti
Traveling and working in the developing world, I’ve discovered that I’m a fairly positive person. In the cholera-ridden slums of Nairobi and the heroin-shooting galleries of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I’ve...
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A Race Among the Roos While Stumbling Upon a Jerry Jeff Walker Fan in the...
(I rode a motorcycle 4000 miles across Australia with my buddy Jack Holt. A lot of improbable things happened but nothing as unexpected as finding a Jerry Jeff Walker fan in the furthest remote...
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I hate everyone and other sensitive cultural observations
Travel broadens the mind, but it also narrows it, especially when you are traveling alone as an invisible person, otherwise known as a middle-aged woman. In truth, it’s not really my mind that’s...
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The San Antonio Missions
Since I moved here in November, I have appreciated that Seattle offers some amazingly diverse subject matter for photography. Whether I am in the mood for urban street scenes or rocky beaches or...
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Collision Courses
Last week I was hit by a motorcycle and by a new language. I keep waiting to see if one of those will leave a mark. The bike accident wasn’t as bad as you would think, but I wish I could clearly...
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Adventures of a Young Man: That Time in Cuba
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain Our delegation was supposed to be about culture and history but nobody ever went to Cuba without a political intent. The...
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A Letter from Iraq
(Editor’s note: Dog Canyon writer and Austin resident, U.S. Army Captain Shaw Locke is winding down his second tour of duty in Iraq with a psychological operations unit in Baghdad. As he prepares to...
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The Mick Hits Two
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris (right to left). image by Corbis. Journalist Jane Leavy was an acquaintance of Mickey Mantle, having spent an Atlantic City weekend with him (in separate hotel rooms)...
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I May End Up At The Poop Deck
I recently made a trip to Galveston. I love some Texas Coast, and I had never visited the most notorious of Texas wharf towns. Each summer my daughter and I try to have some sort of water holiday...
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