Jen

St. Paul’s Cathedral and Millennium Bridge, from the Tate Modern London. My parents still (well, at least for the next two weeks) live in the same house I grew up in. I’ve had my apartment – the first since I graduated from college – for 16 years now. Yes, I’ve had many careers, but I’m […]

I’ve been in Brussels since Monday night. I have to admit that I found the city very… quiet (what city wouldn’t be quiet compared with Istanbul?) at first. I decided to stop reading my guidebook and, on a suggestion from Eva, I walked around the beautiful Abbaye de la Cambre, which houses an art school.

I’m not a fearless traveler. I don’t bounce into a country, speak a new language badly but confidently, adventurously trek into backstreet restaurants and proceed to try the most ethnic dish on the menu. No, that’s not me. I can be timid. It can take me days to warm up, to feel comfortable in new

You didn’t think I’d leave my post-it notes behind when I went on vacation, did you? I didn’t have any plans for them (they’re just a perennial staple in my purse), but they’ve come in really handy during my trip. I speak six words of Turkish, and my pronunciation is pretty horrible. I write my
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