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A Month in Morocco / Un Mois au Maroc, Part 1 - Make it stand out Walking the lanes of the medina was an adventure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/387b8d9c-7a3f-4c12-99e8-b0bbcadb4470/original_618527eb-08d8-496b-90a9-020f789046ee_20240423_081440+%281%29.jpg Blog - A Month in Morocco / Un Mois au Maroc, Part 1 - Make it stand out One of the cleansing fountains in the medina. 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His caption: “I’m exactly Where I’m At.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/ee3fd4ef-7644-4a41-b0b3-f74a695257fa/Jesse+making+pasta+2012.jpg Blog - Jesse’s Story - Make it stand out Sierra, Jesse, and Emma making noodles, Christmas 2011. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/ways-to-endure-part-5 monthly 0.5 2024-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/75b9a389-8585-4f43-8808-7e78bbe27953/060.jpg Blog - Ways to Endure, Part 5 - Make it stand out At the pre-wedding brunch at Sierra and Tina’s apartment, Pat helps Sierra with his corsage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1ae0641e-0aa4-43aa-a420-f341ddaba264/TAI_5852-1_008.jpg Blog - Ways to Endure, Part 5 - Make it stand out Sierra, Tina, and Miso biking up Riverside Drive to their wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/696c5107-4f18-432a-8e8e-f7f768c097ee/20240124_141857.jpg Blog - Ways to Endure, Part 5 - Make it stand out We sat in Dr. Cameron’s office while he used graphics to explain the elephant trunk procedure to us. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/ways-to-endure-part-4 monthly 0.5 2023-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/01fab21f-f401-43e1-85f5-adb32abad183/0628131107.jpg Blog - Ways to Endure, Part 4 - Make it stand out As we drove to Tennessee for a wedding in June 2013, after Pat’s fourth surgery, a rest stop offered Pat a chance to display her superhero persona. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/ways-to-endure-part-3 monthly 0.5 2023-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/8e7bf310-f959-4c75-b045-c768c53917d4/20231127_102040.jpg Blog - Ways to Endure, Part 3 - Make it stand out Helping with an Iowa Youth Writing Project workshop on Art & Writing, I made this linoleum block print at the Iowa City Press Coop with Pat in mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/a9285fef-c443-4b19-8cb3-3b5622a93f0d/20231127_150549.jpg Blog - Ways to Endure, Part 3 - Make it stand out At the wedding reception, from left to right, Jesse, Emma, Zach (in the background), and Sierra. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-a-bicycle monthly 0.5 2023-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/b7c4266a-d3ec-4f7b-b764-25c4eddecd6b/20231107_104106.jpg Blog - On a Bicycle - Make it stand out Jesse test-driving one of the bicycles he helped make. Note the front fork - that’s a baby doll inside the car shock absorber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1bd58306-7d26-4ae3-9b6b-ac985cdaeb59/20231107_103257.jpg Blog - On a Bicycle - Make it stand out Sierra on his bike trip around New Zealand, 2002-03. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/40a7f21f-a965-4243-a721-834cd3a19628/20231107_104255.jpg Blog - On a Bicycle - Make it stand out Emma’s and Jesse’s first bikes. Christmas 1989? https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/ways-to-endure-part-2 monthly 0.5 2023-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/4bfdc437-453e-49c9-a151-e353ab409b5b/0723141824a.jpg Blog - Ways To Endure, Part 2 - Make it stand out Pat didn’t like having her photo taken. But in 2014, while we were enjoying a dinner before a full day of appointments at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, I took this candid photo of her. By this point she’d survived five surgeries. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/ways-to-endure-part-1 monthly 0.5 2023-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/2de3a681-50b2-4cff-a0da-79b472b71537/20230901_153551.jpg Blog - Ways To Endure, Part 1 - Make it stand out This photo was taken somewhere on the California coast a few months before I met Pat, but it’s a favorite of mine. By the ocean with her dog Felix, she is calm, tough, happy. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/balancing-act-living-and-teaching-through-a-plague-part-3 monthly 0.5 2023-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/7fed9637-3e5e-494c-8f79-adab12f3b75e/20200324_171539.jpg Blog - Balancing Act: Living (and Teaching) Through a Plague, Part 3 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1691170940407-A1P0YUFTUAYP8GZ68NM3/20200330_110954.jpg Blog - Balancing Act: Living (and Teaching) Through a Plague, Part 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1691170944734-ZLEMABNIXRY5CLD01XXT/20200426_100140.jpg Blog - Balancing Act: Living (and Teaching) Through a Plague, Part 3 https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/living-and-teaching-through-a-plague-part-2 monthly 0.5 2023-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/f90ef199-29cd-4c01-9b7d-0d755f6c6c3e/20200322_125949.jpg Blog - Balancing Act: Living (and Teaching) Through a Plague, Part 2 - Make it stand out The new maroon Converse All-Stars of joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/026fd993-b715-40e0-9105-f0aac3a62fcd/20200311_094908.jpg Blog - Balancing Act: Living (and Teaching) Through a Plague, Part 2 - Make it stand out In the front four rows of Hancher Auditorium, my students and their chaperones await the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater performance. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/living-and-teaching-through-a-plague-part-1 monthly 0.5 2023-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/d88a9e07-bffb-4fc3-9ab5-86b8cef37798/20200206_162459.jpg Blog - Balancing Act: Living (an Teaching) Through a Plague, Part 1 - Make it stand out The self-serve coffee bar in my classroom at Washington High School. 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Cambiando Futuros en Guatemala[1] - Make it stand out At the end of day two, with Maria’s mother and nephew Mateo in this photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/c2ee689a-8f83-4b07-8e7d-71f0f4578706/handing+over+the+keys.jpg Blog - Cambiando Futuros en Guatemala[1] - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/fatherhood-amp-sonhood monthly 0.5 2023-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/4c25c970-5b33-4d97-a63e-e506010ee8f1/20230330_124800.jpg Blog - Fatherhood & Sonhood - Make it stand out In 1995, at my sister Julie’s wedding - Dad, me, Uncle Dick (Dad’s only sibling). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/f8bfe9d7-c81a-40fa-8c3f-68f5e65ef917/20230310_102745.jpg Blog - Fatherhood & Sonhood - Make it stand out One of the first poems I wrote in high school, later published in a pamphlet by Brother Al Behm, a Glenmary friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/944890b3-0308-421d-b09d-116d3e7dbc4d/20221115_100736.jpg Blog - 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On the right, the loggia steps referred to in this essay. (Photo by Jakub Hałun) https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/jobs-of-my-youth-part-4 monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/f4aedceb-d798-4ccc-b19b-9be458276a75/august+sander+hod+carrier.png Blog - Hod Carrier (Jobs of My Youth #4) - Make it stand out Hod Carrier (Handlager), c. 1927, by the German photographer August Sander, from his “People of the Twentieth Century” project. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/my-black-angel-amp-ana-mendieta monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/ae6de00c-f148-4312-93f0-45aebdc8d59b/20220905_175916.jpg Blog - My Black Angel & Ana Mendieta - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/jobs-of-my-youth-part-3 monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/02e25dcd-8e32-41b6-89e2-29777800649a/20220813_172536.jpg Blog - Rough Carpenter (Jobs of My Youth #3) - Make it stand out Mike, Jon, me, and Brother Ralph standing in front of the modular home factory we helped build https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/jobs-of-my-youth-part-2 monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/11706f98-5cef-44bb-afc6-370bed0fb9cf/four+brothers.jpg Blog - Road Worker (Jobs of My Youth #2) - Make it stand out Four Brothers, Hudson, Ohio, 4 June 1972 https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/some-jobs-ive-had-part-1 monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/52a3316b-7987-4df9-8f03-3406ecff387f/20220725_104358.jpg Blog - Paperboy (Jobs of My Youth #1) - Make it stand out One of my favorite jobs from the early 1980s - apprentice printer at Coffee House Press. 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I’m the curiously proud one in the left middle of the group. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-the-last monthly 0.5 2022-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/67b3214d-d426-48dc-90e1-38212dba501f/old+caye+caulker.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part the Last - Make it stand out Caye Caulker, Belize, in the late 1980s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/c531a25d-9270-414c-8a0c-94d85a9639d7/syds+restaurant.2.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part the Last - Make it stand out Syd’s Restaurant & Bar on Caye Caulker https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-8 monthly 0.5 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/63a77b5d-4ef7-40a0-9c87-18cc60c8f5f3/el+cerrito+del+ermita+del+carmel.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 8 - Make it stand out El Cerrito del Carmen, site of a hermitage on the northern edge of sprawling Guatemala City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/c2f8daef-51f1-4660-8c86-1a027fd75648/Punta_Gorda_Belize-cayuco.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 8 - Make it stand out The quiet Punta Gorda waterfront. The craft in the foreground is a cayuco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/2cc82c8f-78e0-424b-aa85-9c8ea9c34798/original_aee72f6d-5c9b-43cb-9ed6-3bac5b4ab328_20220419_144012+%281%29.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 8 - Make it stand out The first and only issue of Police Beat. The postcard on the cover had arrived mysteriously at my address two years prior. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-7 monthly 0.5 2023-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/0ac498e8-c241-4999-a3c5-333f360fc333/alfombra.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 7 - Make it stand out One of the many alfombras (sawdust carpets) created for Antigua’s Semana Santa processions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/3e3b3fb0-2bba-4017-9513-636197e9db2b/saac+weavers.2.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 7 - Make it stand out Kaqchikel Maya weavers of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, using backstrap looms. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-6 monthly 0.5 2022-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/65eddcd9-308b-45bd-a2dc-32486890aad9/the-view-from-indian.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 6 - Make it stand out San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, on the shores of Lago de Atitlán, at the foot of Volcán San Pedro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/05c80c53-cb3c-4953-9b1d-63dedfd48842/payaso+2.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 6 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/fb8774f9-2ea1-4307-b6d0-d35f3f993e97/La_Merced_Church_Antigua_Guatemala.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 6 - Make it stand out Iglesia de la Merced in Antigua. The bell towers are shorter than is typical because of the risk of earthquakes. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-5 monthly 0.5 2022-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/2bed1c61-f0eb-4a95-ad1c-c084dd20e76a/posada-del-abuelito.best.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 5 - Make it stand out The communal courtyard of Posada del Abuelito in San Cristóbal de las Casas. I spent some time at that table, eating my home-cooked meals and writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/993cffd7-f892-4be3-8b53-3e1307cc189c/letter+from+pat.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 5 - Make it stand out Note: this letter was forwarded to Oaxaca from the Mexico City lista de correos. It contains a conceptual drawing of an airplane by Sierra, who had just turned three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/30208ce1-9b90-417d-954b-552a677ac261/bolsa+de+hombro.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 5 - Make it stand out The bolsa de hombro (shoulder bag) I bought in Ciudad de Oaxaca. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/6544413e-1af9-4be9-bac5-5f3ab7dbfffc/cruz+de+san+juan+chamula.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 5 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-4 monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/6dcc884c-fd4a-4941-9b29-485acc08af6e/playa+las+monjitas.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 4 - Make it stand out Playa Las Monjitas, a few kilometers up the coast from Acapulco https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-3 monthly 0.5 2022-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/e53cc06a-d809-484c-af9d-dd65e110def4/Madonna%2C+Mexico+City%2C+1980%2C+Graciela+Uturbide.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 3 - Make it stand out Madonna, Mexico City (1980) by Graciela Uterbide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/3af6ca6e-bdf5-48c0-a6c4-7bcaf53d4f6f/View_of_Pyramid_of_the_Moon_from_Pyramid_of_the_Sun%2C_Teotihuacan.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 3 - Make it stand out View of the Pyamid of the Moon from atop the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/61f35539-d2c1-4bd7-b685-f054b86d48f0/20211230_214603+%281%29.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 3 - Make it stand out That glazed look on my face - weariness from battling American consulate bureaucracy. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-2 monthly 0.5 2021-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/3176af3e-9009-476a-aa75-096e94beed75/Angel+Woman%2C+Sonoran+Desert%2C+1979%2C+Graciela+Uturbide.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 2 - Make it stand out Mujer ángel, Desierto de Sonora (Angel Woman, Sonoran Desert), 1979, Graciela Uturbide https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-the-road-in-1980-part-1 monthly 0.5 2021-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/7887b32a-9484-4bfe-9ca6-69a6240afda9/mission+dolores+park.jpg Blog - On the Road in 1980, Part 1 - Make it stand out Mission Dolores Park on the western edge of the Mission District, San Franciso https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/my-days-in-a-rock-n-roll-band-part-2 monthly 0.5 2021-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1633057622549-HK2JBRXA3RCPROH8ASJ1/pink+gravy+family+portrait.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band, Part 2 - Make it stand out If we’d ever made an album, this could’ve been the cover art. Cf. the Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow album cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1633058454344-J7LCMW5DW008KLNCGI6I/meltdown.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band, Part 2 - Make it stand out Doing the Meltdown on the dance floor at Gabe’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1633103404172-W03TWF7B2F4MJIGLETCQ/me+on+the+mic.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band, Part 2 - Make it stand out This and the previous photo are by Steve Zavodny, The Daily Iowan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1633103096957-YCN7OJPY1S73N4YXLLVM/David+Time.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band, Part 2 - Make it stand out Yeah, the Daily Iowan ad actually said “Miller Time,” our shameless promo for Miller High Life. But we never turned down free publicity. Photo by Dom Franco. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-various-quests-part-2 monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1631930732670-M35HYK6TY89L61TE0CN6/sir+gawain+movie.jpg Blog - On Quests, Part 2 - Make it stand out From The Green Knight (2021), Dev Patel as Gawain and Alicia Vikander as the Lady of the Castle. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-various-quests-part-1 monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1631557501964-6TN8GS0WZG8T785OPQPF/sir+gawain+and+the+green+knight.jpg Blog - On Quests, Part 1 - Make it stand out Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien, among others, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written by an unknown 14th-century poet of the West Midlands of England. . https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/on-wanting-to-shampoo-you monthly 0.5 2021-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1629400357656-T1SWRLVQUMPJPF2KSQ7K/joni+mitchell.jpg Blog - On Wanting to Shampoo You - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/my-days-in-a-rock-n-roll-band monthly 0.5 2021-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1625179963021-Z9UVP5PZGUZKQH4LDF01/20210701_145916.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1625179973986-GNIM4KWMK9ERMXSPVT3U/20210701_145829.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1625181109514-9KJXBF0VN2HY5GL7MA2D/20210627_130225.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1625181151217-RDU05RXXT2CFH4FGWNJY/20210701_145134.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1625181180395-UBR0XABSWUVDTXB78CYL/20210627_130257.jpg Blog - My Days in a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band… https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/how-i-came-to-iowa-city monthly 0.5 2021-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1624124520435-2TCY1WKOIRQO7REJ4ZH9/student+protest.jpg Blog - How I Came to Iowa City… - Make it stand out Anti-war protest on the University of Iowa Pentacrest, spilling out onto Clinton Street, May 1970 https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/people-we-used-to-be-part-2 monthly 0.5 2021-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1622860346514-9EQ6QQ1IR5IZ2D1KSORU/20210604_212840.jpg Blog - People We Used To Be, Part 2 - Make it stand out Hitchhiking sign for Yarmouth, from my comp notebook. In the underlayer of text, the conjugation of avoir and etre, most of it in Johanne’s hand. I must’ve been driving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1622859767439-EWWLBDPODZ2P5WLK95EM/Cabot-Trail-Nova-Scotia-Cape-Breton-Highlands.jpg Blog - People We Used To Be, Part 2 - Make it stand out Cabot Trail along the northwestern coast of Cape Breton Island https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/people-we-used-to-be-part-1 monthly 0.5 2021-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1621648988011-GG9GFGIWDIMT8XN3ZRPD/20210521_203529.jpg Blog - People We Used to Be, Part 1 - Make it stand out A page from my composition notebook turned into a hitchhiking sign. https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/going-down-to-mexico-part-6 monthly 0.5 2021-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1619814185872-18L9A13UT7UMM8JBNDLK/mexico+map.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 6 The route from Ciudad de México to Morelia represents the first 15% of the 2,100 kilometers I traveled in this last installment to return to the U.S. This is the trusty road map I used in 1976-77 and 1980, in the days before Google Maps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1619814908876-4VDWHNOMHWWH26TW3ELB/SonoranDesert.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 6 https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/going-down-to-mexico-part-5 monthly 0.5 2021-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1618718990766-6IMTZXMATQABWUCHJK49/basilica+de+nuuestra+senora+de++la+soledad.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 5 The interior of the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude) in Oaxaca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1618719389294-C399MP5IXFMX4T4XA939/20210413_110030.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 5 A huipil (traditional indigenous tunic) that Pat brought back from a trip to Oaxaca with her friend Sue Martinez in 1974 https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/going-down-to-mexico-part-4 monthly 0.5 2021-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1617482537108-FV40ZSIJARUC50RSE927/playa-zicatela.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 4 Playa Zicatela, just south of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1617482655288-NN5GT8AFS9NU92W9ZPTS/20210403_151822.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 4 https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/going-down-to-mexico-part-3 monthly 0.5 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1616211674743-UO22FZA3O0XMGD6EN4A8/cascadas+en+michoacan.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 3 (Las Cascadas in Parque Tzararacua, Michoacán) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1616211827505-PPNJHZJEOHF8GJQ9WDGS/20210313_112202.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1616212090709-3Z6POT3CSJ99T63J5NS0/20210313_112855.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1616212110472-6BQ99CKIME1DLSEJOKUW/20210313_112136.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 3 https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/going-down-to-mexico-part-2 monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1615566082965-QHYEQHGBV4HWMZFACF8C/plaza+de+la+libertad+in+tampico.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 2 (One of the prettiest parts of Tampico, Plaza de la Libertad, near the train station. Note the wrought-iron balconies on some of the buildings.) https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/6hvuvqqdoiymmny815je8aqzk0vwms monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1615153952168-BTJTW6CVEXL04DANARSR/asylum+seekers+camping+on+the+border.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 1 (In 1976, I camped on the U.S. side of the border before entering Mexico. In 2021, many seeking to enter the U.S. camp on the Mexico side of the border [in places like this] as they wait, and wait, for court hearing on their refugee or asylum requests.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1615157192074-TQATP4YCLA973ANPUTVE/puente-progreso.jpg Blog - Going Down to Mexico, Part 1 (Looking upriver at Progreso International Bridge, Mexico on the left, U.S. on the right. Our camp was about 300 yards upriver from the bridge. The road along the river wasn’t there then.) https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/sp9s4bqey7qn4vv68unqmwjfgrr2ek monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1613750159630-VYFIGIDPUUQPJLSUO3RH/waterlily+pond+1.jpg Blog - The Art of Hitchhiking (Pond of water lilies, from the University of Michigan Herbarium website) https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/my-kentucky-ancestors-part-3 monthly 0.5 2021-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1612759034915-03HN5ND8U64KKLIOVKOM/swisscolonists.jpg Blog - My Kentucky Ancestors, Part 3 (Swiss colonists at Bernstadt, Laurel County, Kentucky, ca. 1881) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1613412067812-B37J73OWI5HFFJBXZRH7/Muster+family.jpg Blog - My Kentucky Ancestors, Part 3 (The Muster children, c. 1902, from left to right: Willie, Frieda, Fred, Gramma, Ernest) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1612759218467-ZN08QFQWNKH6C42AJM9P/east+bernstadt+house+layout.jpg Blog - My Kentucky Ancestors, Part 3 (My uncle Dick’s architectural rendering of the East Bernstadt homestead where he and my dad grew up) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1612759475595-2BZNI7R6TPT1VQFXQJOJ/gramma%27s+quilt.jpg Blog - My Kentucky Ancestors, Part 3 (The simple nine-patch quilt that Gramma made and gave to me forty years ago. 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On the way to see Tony in Ithaca, NY, Summer 1978. I used the Greek spelling of Odysseus’s hometown.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1608314381651-GITI1EU3WNRLNR0EXOQM/20201214_193022.jpg Blog - Friends of the Devil, Part 3 (Tony from the mid-1980s. On the back of the photo: “what I look like now”.) https://www.davidduerblog.com/blog/friends-of-the-devil-part-2 monthly 0.5 2020-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3164a7e73f510a86cc5685/1608312902630-R3N5LKC5ZZEJE7XM6PGC/20201213_162331.jpg Blog - Friends of the Devil, Part 2 (Summer 1975, at Prch’s house on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, with our friends Tom and Whiskey Stone. 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