Category: Analysis

• Conversation #6: with my wife, a neighbor and on Twitter on the night of the Beşiktaş explosions in Istanbul

  Mar 14

  The night was cold and clear. I remember that the cold hurt my body. Our son had long since fallen asleep, his chest expanding and contracting as his little lungs… more ›

• Carl Talks to the Void

  Mar 14

  Carl was a man of unnatural intelligence. And he had a voice to listen to. His tone was pleasant and comfortably nasal. His voice was not deep, but it was… more ›

• Happiness: a lovely chemical

  Feb 13

  Happiness… Is a noun. With a fairly long history, like the rock and brick walls around a medieval city–These walls are in a state of disrepair and attempts at fixing… more ›

• Conversation #7: Over a parked car

  Jan 28

  “Can you believe that dude parked like that?” I shook my head and acknowledged that the SUV next to me was, in fact, quite far from the car behind him.… more ›

• I have looked and looked

  Oct 26

  I’ve looked and looked for dolphins in the Bosphorus. Never seen them. Sometimes I thought I’d seen them. While on a ferry or at a cafe near the water or… more ›