The first time I went to Turkey, I was traveling with my mom. We might never have made it east of Austria were it not for the patron saint of…
Foreign Correspondence
Foreign Correspondence: Turkey Thanksgiving
Right now, I’m living away from home. It’s the third time I’ve gone into exile abroad, striking out into unfamiliar territory for reasons I can’t fully explain. Now more than…
Foreign Correspondence: Adventures in the Other Georgia (or, I went to the Stalin Museum so you don’t have to)
When did I first realize there was a country called Georgia? I remember reading about the Russian invasion in 2008. Unlike an embarrassing number of Americans, I didn’t jump to…
Foreign Correspondence: It may not be Vilnius, but Edmonds could use a cat café
Lithuania is a little like the Edmonds of the globe. It’s a small, scenic nation with a temperate climate and a bit of coastline; its overgrown neighbors have often threatened…