Category Archives: Visits from the Karagöz puppets

Stories make the world go round – or – where the Karagöz puppets came from


Yesterday, I wrote about Elif Şafak‘s words on the importance of stories – on breaking down walls, expanding circles and enjoying in the overlapping of those circles.  Although you wouldn’t know it from my current profession, a professor of statistics, research … Continue reading

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Karagöz is dying for some Şalgam suyu…what about you?


Well, Karagöz really worked hard on acculturating to his new part-time life in America last night.  He snuck away from the quiet night that M. and I had at home, through the floorboards, and joined our neighbors in their after-midnight-after-party.  … Continue reading

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A globalized, but quiet dinner in Provincetown as the Karagöz puppets state their resolutions for the new year…


I noticed that the puppets were particularly pensive tonight while M. and I had our dinner. They sat on the windowsills around the Provincetown place where we are chilling out, head in hands, looking wistfully at the stars in the … Continue reading

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