Turkey | Turkey
Apr.11.2013
One of the few joys of growing up in a small, hick town was my willingness to leave it in a hurry and and never look back.
There was no longing, no saccharine sentimentality, no yearning for halcyon days forever lost. Nine days after someone handed me my diploma in 1977 on the scruffy turf of the...
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Feb.02.2013
A native of Chicago, former police detective and now romantic suspense author Chris Karslen grew up with a love of history and books. Her parents loved traveling, a passion they passed on to her. She’s had the good fortune to travel extensively throughout Europe, the Near East, and North...
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Dec.19.2012
Iberia is the Spanish peninsula so it refers to people from that region. My old dictionary speaks of an "Iberian race". Iberian also refers to those native to Portugal. But it gets confusing because the ancient Iberians were of the Caucasus region, which is east of Spain. But because the...
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Nov.21.2012
One of my favorite Japanese words contains 面, a kanji that means "face":
面識 (めんしき: acquaintance) face + recognition
If you can recognize someone's face, then that person is your acquaintance! Very logical!
The next compound has 面 at its heart, but the reason is...
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Nov.19.2012
Mmm...I can almost smell the turkey roasting, taste the warm stuffing, hear the glasses clinking together, and feel the love of family and friends enjoying a delicious meal and the company of one another. Yes, Thanksgiving is only three days away. It is a time to give thanks. I...
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Nov.18.2012
A boy called Apu and his creator, Satyajit Ray, changed my life. It was only yesterday, give or take a few decades, when I plunged into the world of Apu and my love of India – and of all things foreign, exotic, different from...
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Sep.03.2012
September 3
HARD TIME
Sometimes I pack the earth down so hard that weeds can’t even grow up through. I try to make nature inert. I try to kill my alcoholism. I confine my disease to this tiny path of compacted dirt and wear blinders as to warn off...
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Jul.27.2012
As we left the cliff-side town of Artvin in Eastern Turkey, we passed a pair of life-sized statues of ferocious looking, massive-shouldered bulls squaring off opposite each other. Unfortunately, we’d missed the bull wrestling matches that are popular...
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Jul.21.2012
My new book DELPHINE takes place partly in Turkey, one of my favorite countries of the Middle East -- or anywhere, for that matter. On my third trip to Turkey, I explored some remote areas in the eastern part of the country. One morning,...
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Jul.16.2012
I’ve never been to Turkey before, and I really must go back and see it someday. Recently I was in Izmir to witness and celebrate the wedding of my son Daniel and his lovely Turkish bride, Dilek Uygül. I have a blurred impression of a stunning land, a complex culture, fascinating history,...
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