Every Stone

My friend Zac took a few really lovely photos at the DMI Summer Institute that I wanted to share. Keep clicking for more photos.

I’m just now getting a breather after getting back from my pseudo summer vacation in New York. July 29 to August 13 I lived in the East Village in New York to take part in the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy’s Summer Institute, a public policy program for young progressives. It was the most […]

Smattering of photos of time in New York. More photos after the jump. DMI Scholars minus one at the pier, pre-city lights cruise.

Hotel Cecil, on Athinas in Athens, could be any of a dozen hotels in twenty cities. I’ve stayed in the same little place in New York, California, Italy, and Turkey, now, I think — an pink ancient building on a main street, its elevator a wire cage that rattles and protest at any bag, or […]

Morning finds me at Ataturk International Airport, international departures terminal, at 7 am, sipping bitter, grainy Turkish coffee while waiting for Olympic Airlines to open and start admitting travelers. I have an hour and so take my time watching the people here. The security is intense — screening of person and baggage at the entrance […]

My third day without a cell phone. It’s becoming liberating. Breeds independence and self-sufficiency. I’ve been relying on technology for too long. Of course it’s not exactly one of those calm symbiotic relationships like the ramora and the shark — ramora, right? — it’s more like a ball and chain that you have to drag […]

I return to Saturday, to Andolu Kavagi, because I must take a step back to explain the genesis of yesterday’s expedition — it was shaped at the insistence of a Turkish woman I met on Kavagi. I was sitting in a café just shy of the top of the hill, having surveyed the fortress and […]

There can’t be more than five or six flights leaving Kiev at any given time. The airport can’t possibly sustain it.

Okay, this is the final bit from Ukraine before I start sending Istanbul and Athens emails. Forgive the post-dating. I wrote yesterday, but had a complete meltdown with all the goodbyes scheduled into my day that I didn’t send. As I write, I am surrounded by all manner of hostile Ukrainian electric devices. The water-boiler […]

Will catch up on back-dated posts — they’re saved, just waiting to be posted — after I leave, but for now, I can share my new travel plans. Visas for Russia take up to a month unless you pay large fees, and it’s probably not the best idea to be an American women traveling alone […]