Empty Nest Expat

 My Turkish Breakfast If someone were to ask me what I did this last weekend, I could only reply "have breakfast." Besides the ...

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...

 It's Tulip Time in Istanbul.   The whole city is bursting with tulips - 4,000,000 of them. These are in the courtyard of the F...

"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...

I was proud to moderate George Orwell's brilliant book "Animal Farm" at Global Minds Book Club  One of the Istanbul...

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...