Living in Lights

2015-02-01

One of my great hobbies is complaining about the weather. Any deviation from a strict 70 degrees will do for this; my habitat is definitely the indoors...

2014-02-21

Every now and then I’m reminded of the baby naming laws in various countries, and then I spend the next half an hour looking up all the absurd things...

2014-02-19

Confession: I check my blog stats all the time. All the time. I suspect that many (most?) bloggers do this. There’s a sense of great satisfaction when...

2013-10-26

Winter is creeping into Anchorage. Snow has been perched up on the Chugach range to the east for weeks, ebbing and spreading as the weather toys with...

2013-04-20

It’s a beautiful day in Bulgaria. I feel compelled to mention that. I’ve been back in this country for a week now with my boyfriend, Adam. Spring arrived...

2011-10-10

Two Google Images results for “eastern turkey”After some undefined number of months living in another country, the major contrasts between Old Home and...

2011-10-02

Reporters speak of Tarlabaşı like it’s the dark heart of some fairytale forest- you can stroll down “glitzy,” “vibrant” İstiklal, but don’t stray too...

2011-09-27

I stayed home from work sick yesterday. I’ll spare you the macabre details, but I’m assigning direct blame to food poisoning, and indirect blame to the...

2011-09-19

As you can tell, I’ve become very lazy busy and important recently, and let this blog fall by the wayside. Maybe we can start off my first entry in months...

2011-08-10

For the longest time, Turkish music, for me, was a source of bafflement. The landscapes here are amazing, the food is the best I’ve ever had, the language...