>since my mother is around, current photos abound. i've had a request for a photo of baki, so here he is, writing his name on his homework...
>bedfellows
>ali left for istanbul on the 7th to have dental surgery (talk about two words you never want to hear together) and will be back in a week or so. in his absence, i have taken to sleeping on his side of the bed and feathering my nest with books. my mother showered me with …
>butttercream
>i feel as if i have had a glimpse of some greater realm, a place where cooking really is alchemy. my guide, naturally, was julia child. it was like this: last week, my mom and i were making a cake to celebrate my father's birthday - after all, i've been celebrating his birthday my whole …
>happiness in my rice bowl
>my mom and i had decided to celebrate the chinese new year when she came down here at the beginning of march, so i was half intending not to do anything at all to mark this day. as evening approached, though, i realized that there was no way i could just ignore chinese new year. …
>old friend
> lamp 2 Originally uploaded by beansprout3 we have been literally inundated -- we get calls all the time from friends in istanbul who have heard about the floods in our area. being on a slope, we do not so much have floods as streams; everywhere you look, practically, there are rivulets of water purposefully …
