The Ecstatic Food Experience of Penang
I only had one plan in Penang, Malaysia: eat. The island is known as the food paradise of…
March 17, 2014
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Traveling With Mama in the Heat of the South
It was a summer of transitions, of transformations. My sister was graduating from her college in Rhode Island…
March 5, 2014
Travels With Sister: Three Lessons
It’s hard to find a good travel companion– one reason I prefer traveling alone is that it removes…
February 16, 2014
A Year Abroad
It’s been a year. A whole year. When I left snowy Boston and landed in Istanbul, I had…
January 29, 2014
World Music Wednesday: The Second Mixtape!
(On Wednesdays, I post a song from somewhere in this big wide world on my Facebook page. Every…
January 23, 2014
The Perfect Quiet of Off-Season North Cyprus
Traveling off-season to North Cyprus is very quiet. I went in December, when the summer sun crowds had…
January 21, 2014
Nicosia, The Divided City
Everywhere I turned, I bumped into a wall. Crude concrete creations blocking sidewalks. Barbed wire atop gray monoliths.…
January 16, 2014
The Logistics of a Holiday in North Cyprus, The Unrecognized Country
Cyprus is a tiny island with a big problem. Since 1974, it’s been split in two. The British…
January 14, 2014
Istanbul is the Crossroads of MY World
There are a lot of clichés about Istanbul— it’s where East meets West, it’s European and Middle Eastern.…
January 2, 2014
You and Me and All The Live Music in Ireland
Late October. We sat in a small Istanbul café, him and me, four years after our last meeting.…
December 22, 2013