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A Very Fine Romance Redux
Return To Blog Listing
A newer version of my other blog A Very Fine Romance that was hacked & deleted. This version continues with my usual eclectic mix of topics.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'Personal'
Posting Only Occasionally
Dear Readers,The last year has been hectic and at times very traumatic. I left Turkey reluctantly after quitting one of those nightmarish employers that I had heard other foreigners in Turkey warn about online and offline. I faced what I thought my...
Interesting Find: Gondolas in Qatar
Gondolas in the Desert from qatar visitor on Vimeo.Qatar (pronounced a little like cut-TER) is a country in the Middle East that is on the northern border of Saudi Arabia. The country is a peninsula on the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Qatar is an emirate t...
President Obama\'s Prize
I'm late in posting this because I've been sick with a cold, but my blog is not a current events or political blog. I don't feel that I have to be a slave to posting timely topics. Even though my fascination with politics has gone from minuscule in...
Where’d My Lovely Template Go?
For about two months or so this summer I had a lovely template for my blog. If you may recall it was blue and white with lilies at the top of the page. Now you may wonder why I changed one that was beautiful to this one that is just a jazzed up v...
Romance on Brief Hiatus
Hey, I just started back blogging again! Well, my laptop is sick; apparently it has been rather infirm for about two months at least and needed repairs. The speed has been painfully slow as if my computer was straining, trying to go from webpage to w...
My Favorite Historical Authors
I am a history addict. I fell in love with history while growing up. I loved to play around with the Britannica Junior and Collier’s encyclopedias in our house. When I wanted to escape from the stresses and disappointments of my young life, my drug...
My Favorite Photos of Presidents
I recently heard that some reporter referred to President Obama as “God.” Though I admire him, I wouldn’t go so far as even calling him a messiah as some of those who love or disparage him does. I do think he has the demeanor and stateliness of...
Back to Blogging Again
I’m back!In the last nearly two months since my last post I re-entered the workforce here at home since returning from Turkey. I was determined to overcome jetlag as quickly as possible, and I succeeded. I went though a period when I seemed to be e...
Well, It Ain't Over Until
Well, I did not do the General MacArthur thing a few months ago and promise that “I shall return.” I didn’t feel like saying it and was in no mood to say it. I was fed up with the untrustworthiness and viciousness of some folk who once existed ...
President Obama and a Final Mix
He is the president now. It is an unbelievable dream come true for African-Americans and all who have followed and participated in our struggle. President Obama’s win is another part of the fulfillment of many parts of what America must become to l...
Al-Hussain: My Blogger Friend and the Nephew of Saddam Hussein
Last year I started a blog about the late leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. This post is not going to deal with his policies or his personality. Plenty of apocryphal stories have circulated about the man over the years. For close to 15 years he was und...
Hello, My Public:))
Happy New Year!I am still alive and kicking. It continues to be a rocky, exciting, frustrating and rewarding ride here, but I am hoping that in maybe two months I will be able to blog fairly regularly. Still things progress slowly in Turkey at time...
Wonders Never Cease
I will not make any promises to blog regularly again. In the next month I do not know what my load of responsibilities will be. I have had my share of stress, excitement, and surprises in the last two weeks. I am currently living with my boss and h...
Randoms
I have a dilemma, but it’s a good dilemma. I want to start another blog which will be a commentary on many aspects of my country and the mindset there along with other random observations. The behavior of my soon to be former roommate and two rathe...
The People I Belong Too
Me and my grandparents J.C. and Savannah Barrow sometime during the late 1960sGino Vannelli, Grammy winner from the 70s, ex-sex symbol, and musical chameleon,and one of my long time favorite singers wrote a song called The People I Belong To on his a...
Developments
Sometimes there is light at the end of the tunnel.The last month or so has been rough. A few barracudas have come after me in one form or another. I was on the verge of a pity party and saying, “Why me???!!!” With a roommate from hell, etc. Well ...
I Decided
I was a little different. I didn't do what the fast girls do.The above words could be my motto. Aspects of this song and video has so much personal meaning to me.At the school they installed a flat screen television in the canteen/cafeteria two weeks...
Walking Into the Future: President Elect Obama
It is now almost three days since the surreal experience happened. I have been too overwhelmed for a few reasons to make a timely post about something that I actually dreamed about one night months ago. I was almost afraid to believe my dream which w...
Great Historical Posts
No, I am not suffering from insomnia even though if you check the time of this post it might seem like it. It is after 3 AM here in Izmit. I do not have to go into work tomorrow until 5 PM, so I am up. I was so impressed by some posts by two blogger...
Blogger Ban Over and The Ugly American
Last week on Friday evening when I came home from the school I thought my blogs had been hacked. I nearly panicked. Then I learned that Blogger was banned in Turkey!Some say Turkey bans as much as China. I cannot verify if this is true or not, but in...
To Istanbul and Back
Two days ago I finally got internet at my apartment. I was the odd woman out here because both of my roommates were able to go online. Plus they also had television, which I am not interested in. I started looking at television when I was a toddler, ...
I Have Arrived
Dear Friends,Thanks for all of the comments and good wishes. I arrived in Istanbul last Saturday, stayed a few hours at the apartment of the head teacher's little brother before going back with the driver, the head teacher, and others to the airport ...
