Lentil Patties
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
Preference Considered
All of our lives, we suffer folks who tell us what we ought to be doing. Some of this is good advice, and we are glad to have taken wise instruction. The problem is that many folks speak with great authority when they are dead wrong. You may be thinking that this is obvious. What is she talking about? Any idiot knows this. But what do you do when the orthodontist tells you that unless you have major work done on your jaw, you will eventually lose all of your teeth? Of course, that work will cost you thousands of dollars and put you in severe pain for months. Do you get a second opinion, or do you comply? After all, this orthodontist is reputed to be the best, and he speaks with great authority. Staying with the mouth as a metaphor, as by its virtue, it is a...
Grape Leaves
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
Circassian Chicken Salad
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
One liners, and the perils of social media
We Turkish are little specks, worker bees, in the hive of the world that is run by the Queen Bee, America. We grow up comparing and finding ways to be even 10 or 11. You grow up being number one.Adalet in What Survives One liners, two liners, what do they want from me? I do not write thrillers. I do not write action. I am quite content in the genre of literary and sometimes historical fiction. I am a writer who writes because it is simply what I do. I love to put ideas on the page, and to express them through my characters. I am a dinosaur, burned out on the pressures of social media. I would have liked to have lived in the time of paper and pen only, even if making corrections and revisions would have been so much more tiresome. Oh yes, it is wonderful to move a...
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