After five years of counting down and a solid year of planning and preparations, our Caveney Clan Christmas holiday gathering arrived in late December. This holiday gathering, coined a reunion by the cousin contingent, and rightfully so, was made more meaningful as it was preceded by nearly two years of COVID impacts. We have valued getting together once-every-five-years since 2001 when my father initiated this wonderful plan, now tradition. We pilgrimaged to MI again in…
I said I would tell you more about my trip to Germany, as well as how I know Harika, the friend whom I visited in my brief time there. So here I am to do just that. The first week after I arrived to İzmir in August of 2018, I spent a lot of time walking the streets around my apartment and in my neighborhood to begin to get a feel for this new country…
As many of my social media followers saw, I made a quick trip to Germany this month. I had a great 48 hours there with my friend Harika (more on her soon), but first I want to share that this was a necessary trip. I had less than 30 days to legally register my iPhone 12 which I got this summer (it came with one of my American visitors). For my American friends this is…