Recently, I have connected with some childhood friends, and have been reminded of my first love. It was interesting because I didn’t remember much about it until friends and I reminisced over stories. Songs, like signposts, directed my thoughts to places traversed lifetimes ago. I was only 13 years old in middle school, and this [...]
Imagine that you are stuck in a foreign place where the health care is not enough for your child. Imagine that the doctors start talking about leukemia, and suddenly every day begins to count. Imagine having to do a medical evacuation, but instead of being sent home you get sent to another strange city where [...]
Aslı Nemutlu Aslı 17 yaşında, sevdiği şeyi yaparken, kayak kayarken, aramızdan ayrıldı. Korkunç bir kaza onu bu dünyadan ve sevdiklerinden aldı. Ne yazık ki, Aslı’nın trajik ölümünden sonra, okulda yazdığı bir kompozisyonu, bir köşe yazarı tarafından ele alınarak, oldukça yargılayıcı ve hatalı bir yorum eşliğinde, Aslı’nın 17 yıllık kısa ama güzel hayatını ve ailesini gölgeleyecek [...]
Asli’s Flow Asli passed away at the age of seventeen while doing what she loved doing – skiing. A freak accident took her away from this world and her loved ones. Unfortunately, after Asli’s tragic passing one of her personal essay was picked up by a columnist and published together with a highly judgmental and [...]
Aslı Nemutlu A friend of mine lost a daughter at age 17 on a ski slope couple of weeks ago. She was in the Turkish national ski team. It is such a fulfilling event to support your child doing something they are passionate about – and then there is that freak accident that takes your [...]
The topic around food and children comes up very often. For example, I know many parents who feel very hopeless and start arranging their lives around food. While I totally understand this, because I was one of them too, I now see that my own attachments and beliefs about food determined my relationship with my [...]