My Turkish family!
Month: March 2012
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” (Part II of II)
This post picks up with Thursday morning, when I slept until almost noon, until Selcuk’s mom came in to make sure I was still alive (I had gone to bed around 11:30). I got up and had an awesome breakfast, and then Selçuk and I went off to try and find a shipping company and…
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” (Part I of II)
It was an amazing week, made even more incredible by the spontaneity that inspired it. On March 16th, I headed to England for two days to spend some time with Neil and to relax, and then traveled on to Turkey to pick up my stuff and say goodbye… What a whirlwind! I’ll start from the…
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It seems a little strange to say this, considering the theme of my upcoming post, but I’m going to save my Ankara trip details for my next post. This post is dedicated to the last two-and-a-half hellish weeks of my life, starting the moment my mother told me that my father had been diagnosed with…
Eat dessert first. 