As the Monty Python crew used to say, “And now for something completely different!” Let’s escape to the deserts of […]
Archive for ‘Culture’
Learning From History At Jewish Museum Berlin
As the capital of a country with a long and complicated history, Berlin wears German history on its sleeve. From […]
Ancient Venus Figures–Origins and Significance
Venus Figures are small bone, ceramic or stone carvings which exhibit exaggerated female breasts and hips. The term ‘Venus figure’ […]
The Muisca and the Search for El Dorado
Gold makes monsters of men. –Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road Gold, glory and God The origins of the quest for El […]
Ancient Petra: The City of Stone
As the coarse sand and scree crunched under the weight of my moving feet, I passed through one narrow bend […]
The ART of Politics
While the Trump era has provided endless opportunities for journalists to come up with fresh ways to report on domestic […]
Amazing Bogotá Street Art #2
As I wrote in The Amazing Street Art Scene in Bogotá, Colombia’s sprawling, high-altitude capital is a veritable feast for […]
The Disunited States of Fear
Here we are again (and again and again and again…[queue the refrain]…) in the aftermath of more mass murders in […]
Portals of Malta
Doorways are portals to other worlds, both real and imagined. J. R. R. Tolkien–speaking through one of his most enduring […]
Don’t Say You’re An ‘American’
We are conditioned so effectively to play artificial roles that we mistake them for our true nature. Jean–Jacques John, an expat who recently relocated to Colombia, approached the desk at the […]
