Sometimes, work is hard – even when you are doing exactly what you love exactly where you need to be. But everyone has those days, when you are trying to make lemonade and as you are walking back from the manav (fruit stand), your lemons fall out of your bag and all of the little kids on the street start kicking them around the block. It’s no one’s fault. The universe is just politely telling you, “take a break.” (more…)
Sefa Ak holds a kestral for morning feedings.
“I can give you a lift to Kars,” a man and his family offer as they drive up to the curb. They are in the last car to leave the airport parking-lot, and they have been watching, waiting to see if someone was coming to get me. “I’ll be fine,” I say, “a friend is on the way.” They look at me reluctantly. The parking-lot is empty. All the other passengers from our flight, the only flight, have continued on their journeys to somewhere else. (more…)
Catherine de Medici Jaffee is a lunatic about honey culture in the Caucasus. You can most frequently find her jumping on a mountain, running from angry bees, cooking in villages, hitching on dirt roads, or joking with Turkcell about her internet woes.
Cat is joined by Claire, an artist, photographer, writer, and globe wanderer. You're most likely to find her upside down, yodeling from a mountaintop, making tragic mistakes in Turkish, or eating meat for Cat.
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Jeez, Cat, forget the honey road--you're making me want to visit Kars!
Now, if only America could be like Kars, Turkey, where people of all types could get along and ask a
After a realistic post (hust sit down, and suit up) about society, now some positive words about Kar
Cat This is a cliché (my words) but i admire your work, i respect your feelings. You are brave, keep
OK; sounds good. I was just trying to understand the failure, and had only limited understanding of
Dear Terrystuff, thank you for writing and for following my blog. I found your work very interesting
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