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From the Aegean to the Mediterranean and over to Italia: Check out Mozzarella Mamma


…and now for something completely different, a shout-out to my step-sister Trisha Thomas, and her hysterically on-point writing about navigating cross-cultural family life.  While slowly-by-slowly primarily focuses on the joys and challenges of learning to be culturally responsive in one cross-cultural marriage … Continue reading

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Escaping the death star by dolmuş: Bodrum bound, Islam not found


After all of the obesity battles, I throw in the towel, so to speak, and we decide to spend the next two days exploring Bodrum town and environs. When M. and I decide this in the quiet of our room … Continue reading

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Karagöz daydream #2: Flying from west to east with Khadijah and Kenne, my first female Karagöz shadow puppets


The shadows are back.  They exist beyond my boyfriend’s South Boston apartment, I think.  Not sure this is a good or bad thing.  This time, it is a man in western Ottoman-era dress with a pince-nez and a lady in the red dress of … Continue reading

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