Subtle Gear Shift
When the cub came back from Bulgaria he brought a delightful array of presents for me: a family ring to solidify our fake marriage, coffee mugs from his parent’s trip to moscow, and a bicycle…
Tag: travel
Is this real?
I am sitting in an empty classroom, taking a little of the campus internet to finally update my blog and try to figure out what 2+2 equals in Turkey. This morning I woke up, had…
Learning from cats
So I thought that I would take a few moments this morning and write a bit about my newest love. (No, I am giving the blog a break from writing about Nikola… this little guy…
Stress takes its toll:
I remember completing a questionnaire about life-stressors that I have faced sometime during my early college years. The idea was to recognize that stress can be positive or negative, that its effects are cumulative, and to give…
I had forgotten…
I had forgotten that love could feel like this: this warm, this exciting. When he got off the tram yesterday I saw him looking for me. Instantly I melted. No, beyond melting, I exploded. It…
Why I don’t REALLY miss Burning Man…
This is an interesting article that I stumbled upon about bringing your Burning Man experience into your real life. Do I miss being in the States? People ask me this all the time, and I…
Sunday Morning
Sunday morning I decided to go to church. Of course, I don’t really go to church as I don’t practice a religion, but I decided that I needed some private time to concentrate on my…
Whatsoever
Arrival
It is never the way that you imagined it, so I never bothered to imagine it at all. Imagination can be useless in these situations. You imagine arriving in the city the way that you…
A Meta-Vacation along the Black Sea
I originally intended to come to Turkey at the beginning of September. I thought that I would take a train over on the first, and spend ten lazy days doing nothing until I had to…