Last week, October 11, 2022, I did one of the craziest, the most insane and perhaps the undoable thing in my life. It was something that I had in mind for a long time but had neither courage nor time to do it. I still cannot believe I did it. Looking back, it feels like […]
I’m writing this piece from a corner in heaven, from the simplicity and the beauty of nature… And I wish to ask with purely naive intensions… What is it that you see when you look into the mirror? How does your inner voice guide you and through which messages? What is the proponent narrative, is […]
Have you realized that movies based on true stories are now produced more and more compared to the past years, and they are getting higher demand by the audience? How do I know? Because I prefer this type of movies to fiction ones. It takes one to know one! Why, though? These movies help me […]
We have come to the end of the line again! History is repeating itself… The same game, the same pain, the same losses… continue. Going through the same ordeal over and over again, suffering, agonizing… Until when? Until we learn our lesson! “We have learned to fly like birds and swim like fish, but […]
When asked “Who are you?”, everyone has a list of social identities. Although they are in different order, they are similar in terms of their content. When I am asked, I would say I am a citizen of the world, a woman, a wife, a mother, a child. But the most dominant identity with which […]
Last weekend, I watched Ridley Scott’s (2021) movie The Last Duel, which is about the true story set in 1386. The film is based on Eric Jager’s (2006) book The Last Duel: The True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France. The story is about the trial by duel between two […]
Life is so mysterious! Here I am sitting at my dining table in my Barcelona home, drinking Turkish coffee from the coffee cup that my cousin gave me as present in Tel Aviv. When I look at the cup, I am thinking that “I could be sipping my coffee in a bohemian cafe on the […]
Summer has come. While expecting that things would get easier, our life has become more complicated than ever… With Corona, we are facing such period of time that I think attempting to live the new normal as “normal” is now a total fantasy. While we are still taking all sorts of measures for even a […]
I’m writing these lines at my dinner table in my home in Barcelona, where I spent about 80 days in quarantine. And probably, you’ll be reading these lines while I’ll be flying from Barcelona to Istanbul, on 1 July 2020, provided that everything goes well… Today is 24 June 2020… Wednesday… Exactly 50 years […]
The past three or four months have had different meanings for everyone living on earth; it has served different purposes; and everyone has experienced this phase differently, generating various messages to oneself. On one hand, it was a worrisome period, and on the other hand, full of valuable gains… At the same time, we can […]