Month: April 2011

  • The Village People

    Sitting in an academic conference room, I served on the search committee that hired him as Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His scholarship on the writer Christopher Isherwood impressed me, as did his pragmatism and belief in the transformational power of education. Walking down the narrow, uneven street to our 400-year-old Greek house rental, […]

  • You Can Also Tune In To

    …the other blog I’m posting to this year:  http://layingfallow.com/turkeyblog/?p=916 If you don’t click over there, how else will you know what I did last weekend?

  • Bella Donna

    I’ve been asking questions since we got to Turkey. Startlingly often, people have not been able to answer them.  Certainly, some people vamp a bit and try to drum up something that might satisfy; others drop open their yaps and carry on for several minutes before trailing off, looking sheepish at their lack of conclusion; […]

  • Don’t Mind the Gap

    A little tip for those situations that might seem intimidating or beyond the boundaries of the comfort zone: As you eye the gap between here and there what you’ll find amazing is that the tools necessary to build a bridge are trifling maybe thirty words of common language– no grammar– a cute sidekick who sometimes […]