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Memorial For Mustafa Akarsu
Today marks one month since the attack at the U.S. Embassy here in Ankara. It is the second time the embassy community has come together to grieve and to honor and to remember Mustafa Akarsu. The first...
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Everyone Knows It’s Windy
Today is a windy day. A blustery, gale force, shaking my window walls kinda day. And it is messing with my agenda. I got up at 5 am to take the dogs out. We are actually sleeping in these days!!!...
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Bezi’s Day Out
I have found it very hard to blog lately. There are lots of posts in my head, pictures and places and stories I would love to share — I just haven’t found the time, energy, time, focus…..time……did I...
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What About Wookie?
Wookie is total puppy and keeping us on our toes. Here she was during her first days with us. Her ears still rotate like a satellite dish or independent sock puppets and she is no longer protruding...
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One Pound Fish
A few weeks back my son got to attend his first middle school dance, as the fifth graders were invited as a step up move. He planned his outfit, practiced his moves at home and headed off with a big...
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That Bad Bunny
Recently I was helping to stuff colorful plastic eggs at the CLO office in preparation for an egg hunt. While inhaling the sugar and marshmallowy fumes rising up from the fill bins in front of us, I...
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The Aya Sofia Museum
is meant to be relished and poured over from all angles. It is awe inspiring in its size and lines, in its materials, its history, and its spirit. If you only have one shot at visiting — read ahead,...
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Aya Week: View From the Upper Gallery
Horseshoe in shape, you get to the upper gallery by climbing the 50 foot ramps. The view is amazing:
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Aya Week: The Splendid Door
Brought from a pagan temple in Tarsus, this bronze door dates back to the 2nd century B.C. It is believed to be the oldest architectural element used in creating the awe inspiring Aya Sofia. It was...
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The Death Of A Foreign Service Member
In the news is the report of a Taliban attack that took the lives of a Foreign Service Officer, three NATO troops and civilians. The blog THE PARTITION writes a beautiful piece about this young woman...
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Not Just “the Iraq problem”
I haven’t mentioned here yet that I volunteer once a week at a refugee program here in Ankara. I am involved with the little ones especially. Kids who have seen violence, who have their whole worlds...
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What Is Happening Is
we have been hosting our first visitor – MY MOM!! Well, I wouldn’t exactly use hosting…more like totally enjoying being spoiled and having great reasons to explore a huge swath of Turkey in the Spring!...
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Spring Fling
My mom arrived at the start of the most perfect time in Turkey. The few weeks before she got here we had a bit of warm, but then snow, horrendous frigid winds, chilling rain. I had forgotten about how...
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Midas, Alexander, Diana, and John
It still throws me that we are walking through history. Long ago history. History and stories I learned in school, but didn’t ever really understand the WHERE and WHEN of it all. A huge bonus to being...
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GeoChallenge: Thyatira
Last we left you on our way out of the ancient city of Sardis. So back onto 300, heading back the way you came – but just for a tiny while. From here we took a left onto road 555 heading to Golmarmara....
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Hello Hera
We all agreed: the Hera Hotel in Bergama was AWESOME! As we worked our way into town we were a bit worried about finding the hotel. Again, it was trying to coordinate the main entry into a city with...
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Walking Through Historic Bergama
Leaving our hotel and heading toward the acropolis of ancient Pergamon we went through a neighborhood of historic Ottoman-style homes. Here are some of our favorite photos of Bergama homes to share...
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