Last Saturday, I read with two other poets, Marita and Jake, from my writing group at Molly’s Cafe. Molly is a Canadian who came to Istanbul 12 years ago to teach and direct an English language school. Several years ago, she gave that up and opened a small cafe hear Galata Tower. Whenever you [...]
Entries Tagged as 'istanbul'
A Reading List
March 10th, 2010 2 Comments
Mike got me a Kindle for Christmas, and although it isn’t the physical pleasure of an actual book, it solves the problem of easily getting new books while we are in Turkey. I returned to Istanbul with 7 books on my Kindle and read them all. Could it be that I am reading faster now [...]
The Pet Market
February 10th, 2010 1 Comment
A friend of a friend has written a children’s story set in the pet market near Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar. The friend of the friend now lives in the U.S., and her illustrator needed some photos of the area to help with the artwork, so I got the assignment. This is a lively part of Istanbul [...]
Tags: Bird Market · Flower Market · istanbul · Pet Market · Spice Bazaar · Yeni Camii
Türkan Saylan
May 20th, 2009 1 Comment
We haven’t been in Turkey long enough to know much, so when we saw this house in Arnavutköy on Tuesday, I did a little bit of research. Türkan Saylan, who died of cancer on Monday, lived in this house on the main street in Arnavutköy. She was a doctor who devoted her career to eradicating [...]
Tags: Arnavutköy · istanbul · Türkan Saylan · Turkey
The Weather
February 18th, 2009 2 Comments
Except for two recent sun-shiny days, it has been raining since we returned from the States. Whenever I go out, I have to consider the weather, something I almost never had to do in NM or in Cairo for that matter. If rain is in the forecast, I need to carry an umbrella and carrying [...]
