Kalaupapa Archaeology

Aloha!  I spent last week in Kalaupapa, a northern peninsula on the island of Molokai in Hawaii.  I’ve been helping a fellow graduate student out with his dissertation research on the historic lepertorium here on the island.  It’s particularly relevant as Farther Damien, a missionary who came to the island and ended up getting leprosy [...]

Continuous Movement

I took an overnight train from Konya to Istanbul, and snapped this photo as the sun was going down over the Anatolian plain.  I’ve never ridden a proper train before, or at least one that wasn’t connected to a larger metro.  The trip took sixteen hours and we passed squat minarets and blasted mountains and [...]

Ireland

There’s a giant butterscotch cat sitting on my lap as I peck away at the keyboard, one hand kept behind his battle-scarred ears–he’s a lover and a fighter–his claws digging into my thigh each time I stop petting. Beast.  It’s okay though, he and the peat fire are keeping me warm in a drafty, weird, [...]