The BLog

I am just returning from my second trip to Turkey. The Mediterranean coast is so different from what I experienced in central Ankara. One of the things I was looking forward the most was the Turkish food. During my last trip I didn’t have the chance to try a variety of Turkish dishes, so this […]

Today, I donated 10 inches of my hair to help make a wig that will be donated to a woman with cancer. Let me tell you why it matters to me and may matter to you as well. Five years ago, when I was a teacher, one of my kids from the year prior got […]

After being on 6 planes, in 6 airports, 4 countries, 3 continents, eating countless airplane meals, and definitively not enough sleep, I had a great Turkish trip. I flew business for the first time ever, which was definitively great on the long-haul to Istanbul. After flying business with Air Canada flying first class is no […]

After spending an impressive number of hours researching flights, hotels and activities, I’m flying to Turkey TODAY!!! I wasn’t expecting going to Turkey when I wrote my list of goals for the next 10 years, even if it was only a month ago! Turkey was definitively not the country in Asia I had in mind […]

Yesterday I tried yoga for the first time! I know many people picture me as the yoga type, but I have never yogied (is that even a thing??). I did try Power Yoga when I was a freshman in undergrad, but I wanted to die after 10 minutes and it made me scared of trying […]