It's the semester break at last, and we are in Istanbul for a few days. We did a bit of running around today, in the faintly carnival atmosphere of the first day of the hols, and Baki encountered a personal hero: His report card was full of good news, which was a pleasant surprise. I …
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Bread saga
We're in the midst of a stormy weekend out in the garden. It has been raining all day with the occasional downpour and one or two mad hail showers, with little white hailstones bouncing about everywhere. Tonight there is wind, great gusts of it. There are times when the wind is so strong that the …
On food… and toads
Before Baki was born, I had lots of lofty ideals about feeding him. I remember when Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook, Deceptively Delicious came out, I sniffed and thought, "My kid is going to look vegetables in the face and love them." It used to be true. I looked back at an old blog I wrote about …
New Year’s Day
Ali is resolute in not showing any favoritism among the days of the year, so for New Year's Eve we did precisely nothing. Baki was sick -- he had woken up with a fever, and as we were still in the city, I took him to the hospital in the morning. They said he had …
Rained out
It was rainy on Friday, and since I had the car and was going to be driving everyone back to the garden, we decided that it might be better to see how things looked on Saturday. It was pretty demoralizing, so when we awoke to clearer weather on Saturday morning, I wasted no time in …
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