Creating, Nourishing and Growing Your Sacred Space
Autumn Skye says it all with her magnificent piece entitled "My Body is My Temple" which you can see above this post - we all have a sacred space within us. Our body, like a temple, [...]
Family Lost and Finding…One Coffee at a Time
There are many broken families out there and mine is one. An estranged adult child, I hadn't identified myself as one for the stigma I associated with being cut off from family. What sort of [...]
The Only Reason Why I Leave Anything…
I wasn't prepared for all the drama, crying (mostly mine, a little of my six-month-old Zoe's), clinginess (more me than Zoe) and sleepless nights when the idea for this article came to me at the [...]
Inventing My Unique Brand of Turkishness in a Lab Called Lane Cove
"The base of your spine is going deep into the ground and sprouting roots" as soon as I visualised this in the centre of Lane Cove, I knew with certainty that my roots are firmly [...]
What Fridays Mean to Me As a Lane Cove Mum Who Happens to Be a Writer, Turkish and Muslim
If you ever worked in marketing or hospitality, you may have had the unenviable job of trying to make every day special. You may have noticed that restaurants, hotels, massage parlours, pubs all have a [...]
Where is Home?
To anyone who's ever left the town, city, region or the country where they were born, a question of identity and belonging arises. The reasons for leaving the original place of birth may be diverse. [...]
How to Consume a Pomegranate for Enjoyment and (Mental, Physical and Spiritual) Health Benefits
Before I start let me give credit where it's due. The painting is by Ismail Acar, a Turkish painter who works with Ottoman symbols. I came to know of his work through my cousin more [...]
Where There’s an Onion, There are Tears
Awareness is like an onion said a Lebanese friend when I told her I'm parsley. What she was referring to is that like an onion, our personalities are made up of layers of identities. If [...]