Empty Nest Expat

Alina Gallo, artist One of the beautiful things about my PAWI (Professional Women of Istanbul) group is that I meet interesting America...

The last time my free speech was censored in Turkey was right before a local election. The entire Google Blogspot domain was shut down. The ...

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...

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...

 Me with fellow expats Catherine Bayar and Anastasia Ashman This week I attended the Istanbul simulcast of the TEDGlobal conference live ...

This week, the Republic of Turkey's censorship of the Blogger domain ended where I live! Yea! It's nice to be able to see my blog a...

Today, May 3rd, has been designated as World Press Freedom Day by UNESCO.  Blogging has made me acutely aware of the toll bloggers and journ...

Wow, if I wasn't having problems enough getting around the Turkish censorship of Google's blogging platform (the censorship hasn...

Tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on? I'm not sure. Because I can't physically see my blog.  You'll have to tell me if you can.  I...