Turkey - SB Hopper

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

I'm not ready for the summer heat; Seattle threw me a bone today. A chilly spring day with the best kind of rain. You could see it approaching, you could smell it in the air. I was walking south, and I knew things were changing quickly. There was a good

Byzantium

Past Life: Turkey

I should be finishing up my March For Our Lives post. Instead I got distracted by some old photos of Turkey. I taught English in Istanbul from 2000-2002. Incredible people, city, and country. For a while I had the notion of charting a course for retirement in a small Turkish

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Istanbul, 16mm footage from early 1950s

My grandfather was a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army and served in the European Theater during World War II. I think he served primarily in a staff position in Patton’s Third Army, but I need to confirm the specifics. He always liked cameras and had