Travel

Exploring Georgia

For my birthday in 2022 I traveled to Madrid, Spain. It was a new city, and country, for me. It was an amazing trip! Because my birthday continues to be included in my school’s Fall Break holiday, I have made it a personal goal and tradition to travel to a new country/city to celebrate the start of my next year on earth. New country, new city, new age!  For my 50th birthday this past November…

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My Goldilocks Apartment

I have lived in three apartments across my time in Türkiye. For the first four years I lived in a one-bedroom apartment located in the school’s Lojman (“worker’s residence”) which is located close to our campus and houses some of the foreign educators. That apartment was good–it had a large great room with a balcony facing into the afternoon/evening sun. Ziggy and I were happy there for those four years. The bedroom was tiny and…

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Intention Set for 2024

Another year is upon on us! This amazes me when I think that nearly a quarter of a century has passed since the unnecessary craziness that surrounded the Y2K rollover. I worked for Hewlett Packard in that time and volunteered to work that night when everyone feared that bank servers would crash and the world would be a mess. I worked because the pay was double time. I made great money on a night when…

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