Empty Nest Expat

On a ferry between two continents  is a great place to read In the last two years, one of the most fun things I have done is get invol...

Üsküdar's Historic Fish Market; Fishmongers shout to the customers what is on offer. It adds to the fun. There were so many...

If one stays in a country long enough as an expat, it's easy to see places where one could contribute. Turkey recently had its 90th an...

Protesters doing yoga in Gezi Park What a fascinating week in Turkey as my friends have risen up and demanded their Turkish democracy be...

Look Ma! I can play Scrabble in two languages!   My Turkish teacher is so clever. Just when she can feel her class of students runn...

"I am Listening to Istanbul" by Orhan Veli Kanik I had a young Turkish teenage friend who was supposed to be learning Engl...

Like the box says: Turkish baklava One day, my Turkish teacher explained to our class that if a man had a beer belly, it was affectio...

I didn't get to blog as much as I wanted last year because I devoted many hours of my time to learning Turkish. Still, I increased my nu...

Singing "Silent Night" a candlelight Christmas Eve Tradition all around the world There were also beautiful soprano and...

  American ladies arriving at the entrance.   Jennie Toner, far right and front just founded the Istanbul Instructors' Network ...

The ensemble cast of Süleyman's Ottoman Court Hollywood is so dominant in entertainment, it's easy for Americans to think no on...

This review originally appeared as a guest post on the Everyday Language Learner's Blog. Thanks to language coach Aaron G. Myers for hi...

Maiden's Tower on the Bosphorus I haven't blogged here for awhile.  It is not because I don't have a million things to say; I d...