There is another aspect about Turkish life that I love, and which deserves a post all its own. Or rather, a few posts as you’ll see. While I live in a city of 4.5M, I am more connected with my neighborhood community than I was anywhere else I have lived before now. Perhaps that is a product of the fact that life in a big city causes one to participate in a sort of walking-radius…
Some of you may know about this, for others it will be new information and rightly so. No one likes to sit around and use their connection time to complain about aches and pains. But, it is something I have been wrestling with for over two years now. Maybe one of my readers out there will have an idea of something I can try that I don’t yet know about. I have had chronic pain…
Many moons ago, on my previous blog, I wrote a post entitled “Mongolian Habits to Adopt.” I was more than two years into living life in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and didn’t know yet that I would be pushed to leave that country. But here I am in my fourth year of life in İzmir, Turkey! I was recently reflecting upon ALL the things I love about Turkey, and about making a life here. I remembered that…