Don’t Come Here
A few months ago, I got an email out of the blue from a producer for a travel…
June 15, 2021
Inside/Outside: A Bifurcated Week
Turkey has spent more than six months in some sort of partial lockdown. I’ve been lucky enough to…
May 19, 2021
April 2021
There was so much optimism in March but it quickly spiraled in April, with case numbers rising and…
May 14, 2021
March 2021
A year ago, the world changed. And a year on, we’re still in some sort of lockdown in…
April 10, 2021
Submergence
There’s this fleeting sensation when you first slip into the pool for a pre-dawn swim that swirls together…
March 12, 2021
February 2021
The shortest month somehow felt long this year, maybe because time continues to be sort of irrelevant and,…
March 8, 2021
January 2021
I returned to an Istanbul under curfew, with continuing weekend lockdowns. While so many of my friends are…
February 9, 2021
Eight Years Abroad
Every year I reflect back not on December 31, but on January 29, the anniversary of the day…
January 29, 2021
December 2020
I spent all of December in the US, home with my family, and it was perfect. I’ve never…
January 5, 2021