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(JUNE2010) THIS BLOG HAS MOVED to expat+HAREM, the global niche: http://www.expatharem.com/, where it appears in a new series called "Founder's Desk". Please come join us there! I'm an award-winning writer and Expat Harem cultural producer -- Berkeley native based in Istanbul -- illuminating personal dynamics, from one family to entire hemispheres with a focus on female identity. I share resources for women, writers, readers, travelers, expats, Turkophiles & culturati of all stripes.
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural Conversation Raising the feminine voice on issues of culture, history & the struggle for identity

English - Culture, Identity, Women
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 1Y ago

Moving to expat+HAREM

This blog **HAS MOVED** to expat+HAREM, the global niche, where my cultural producer posts now appear in a new series called Founder's Desk.
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 1Y ago

Bornean Buddha

On this birthday week of Buddha can you name a mindfulness experience you’ve had?
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Authority abroad

Larger-than-life expat personalities seem in tune with far-flung surroundings, and able to produce their best work out of foreign atmospheres.
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Psychic location independence

Most of us cannot go somewhere on the ground where all our people and our perfect lifestyle exist. We must find that psychically -- call it our "global niche".
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Debating what-not-to-do in Istanbul

After seven years in this heavily visited megalopolis, I even the score on what not to do in Istanbul.
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Creatives surviving & thriving abroad

Technology and the times both lower the barrier for writers abroad, and raise our game. Now we're producers, directors, engineers of content.
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Your tribe is the new segregation

As we seek our global niche, we’re integrating across all sorts of out-moded boundaries. You could also say we’re segregating along the lines of our true selves.
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Passion plays

Most of us would agree that passion fuels our aims better than discipline or elbow grease alone. Passion’s dark side -- anger -- may be the best defense of our identity, and a future that looks like us.
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Can a photo capture the soul?

Some people believe a photo steals the soul. What about a photo that captures a soul death?
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Furthering the Worldwide Cultural · 2Y ago

Ring my bell

What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born?
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