I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.                                                

                —Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

New section: Photoblogs

• My New Orleans
• The Land of the 9 pm Sun
• A New York Minute
• Voices of Israel and Palestine
• Two Days in Istanbul
• Russia and me
• Romania Journal
  A multimedia site featuring Quicktime video. May not display properly with slow internet connection.
• Conquest of Mexico
  My most-visited section. Traces the route of the conquest across modern Mexico.
  Indigenous Account— Heroic Defense of Mexiko-Tenochtitlan
• Mexico by Bus