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Last night in Bodrum Part II: Dodging Breeze snakes and coffee bullets


Snakes of warm breeze slid around me, curiously disconnected from one another.  I felt them swoosh up and down my arms, my palms flat on the table in front of me as if about to play a child’s slapping hand … Continue reading

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2011 Interlude: From hairy black radishes to sweet apples and the power of childhood memories


Cross-cultural moments abound in my marriage. While I am not in Turkey right now, they still seem to come fast and furious seven years into this road trip together with M. – the road trip that I am narrating here … Continue reading

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Last night in Bodrum: Fish cheeks, rakı and coffee


Feeling faintly present during our last night in the gated compound near Bodrum, guests of Mr. X and family, I made my way through it all pleasantly enough.  The puppets were really nowhere to be found, not that I looked … Continue reading

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