Turkey

While my husband was away, I drew this.

by rosedeniz November 28, 2011 drawing
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A story in pictures.

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5 Questions for Makers

by rosedeniz July 3, 2011 art
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Being creative means being savvy, trusting the hands that draw you to create in the first place. You’ll dig deep when you need to. Make something out of nothing, though you never for one second believed it didn’t exist. It already existed in your mind before you ever made it.

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Welcome to Love, Rose 2.0

by rosedeniz January 15, 2011 art
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Tweet In 2004, I opened up shop and blog to explore my journey from the Midwest to Turkey. I had an MFA in Painting, a Turkish fiance, and a new life ahead of me. Now six years later, my husband and I are raising two bilingual and cultural kids, my freelance illustration habit is going strong, and I’ve got […]

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Learning curve

by rosedeniz November 5, 2010 creativity
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Tweet Several times a year I take on projects that are more than I can handle. I make sure that they are outside of my area of expertise, and keep me up late at night problem solving. Like writing a book in August and revising it while redoing my website and this blog at the same time. My […]

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Which language says ‘Mother’ best?

by rosedeniz October 21, 2010 expat

Tweet At school, my son gives me a hurried, “Bye, Rose!” Not mommy, not ‘Anne‘, the Turkish word for mother, but Rose. My two-year-old called everyone ‘Baba‘, father or daddy in Turkish, until recently, and now she’s learned Anne.  I hear ‘mommy’ when I ask my son to say, “Can I please have x-y-x, Mommy?” and […]

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Cultural style memo

by rosedeniz September 29, 2010 global niche

Tweet Last weekend I went to a wedding. Evening at poolside, giant sparklers shooting into the air while the happy couple walked the aisle. Husband in cotton jacket with red polo, me in fancied up jersey dress with pleats and sparkles and flats. Every. Single. Woman. was wearing heels. And some version of black with […]

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Summer stories

by rosedeniz July 8, 2010 nesting

Tweet In the maroon recliner in our living room with the overhead fan whirling, I read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn And Maggie-Now every summer until we moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota. My reading grew to include contraband paperbacks I hid behind bookshelves and the now defunct Sassy magazine.  My first summer in Turkey I read everything by Jane Austen. I measured […]

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Path finder

by rosedeniz February 24, 2010 expat

Tweet The path from there to here involved some stops along the way, but I’m a Midwesterner through and through. This illustration is a visual trajectory of the direction I took. On any given day, the things that affect my perception change. It can be something as immediate as noisy construction, the call to prayer, or […]

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Medine Memi, 1994-2010

by rosedeniz February 5, 2010 Turkey

Tweet Medine Memi, may you rest in peace. May you now know a freedom you never experienced in life. May no young girl or woman ever again experience the horror you faced. A link to a Turkish news report here (in Turkish). The book Batman’da Kadınlar Öluyor (Women in Batman are Dying) is an investigative report by female reporter Müjgan […]

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