• Letters to my daughter

    Letters to my daughter

    My dear daughter, Another year is passing, another year shaped by struggle is coming to an end. I am not afraid of anything except one thing. That I may not be able to tell you how deeply I love you, that I may not make you happy enough, and that…

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  • To Be As You Are

    To Be As You Are

    For as long as I can remember, I have stood against “what’s wrong.” Some call this being “stubborn,” but it is not that at all. I learned, slowly, that staying silent while knowing something is wrong, ignoring it, or bowing down to it is not something everyone can do. I…

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  • Pinocchio

    Pinocchio

    The childhood hero of our fairy tales, Pinocchio… his nose grows whenever he tells a lie.That’s why when you say to someone, “You’re just like Pinocchio,” it really means, “You’re a liar.” But I want to ask this question the way Üstün Dökmen describes it in his book Küçük Şeyler-2:…

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  • The days are slipping through my fingers like sand so fast I can barely catch my breath. In just two short weeks, Christmas will arrive. No big plans this year, no money for anything grand… but maybe that simplicity is its own kind of peace. Maybe staying at home is…

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  • Ara

    Ara

    Mümkün mü bu, olsun ruhumuz ilgisiz? Sen bende ve ben sende doğar, gizleniriz. Sen ben deyişim anlatabilmek için, sen ben aramızda yok ki gerçekte biliriz.

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  • today is my Birthday

    today is my Birthday

    I can’t exactly say, “Oh look, I’ve entered another beautiful year of my life” 🙂Because honestly, for about a year now, I just haven’t been able to move from age 29 to 30 :D. Jokes aside, today is really my birthday. Pfttt… When I think about it, I’m like “oh…

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  • When I Found a Lump on My Daughter’s Breast

    Motherhood never stops surprising me. No matter how old our children get, our hearts are always walking outside our bodies especially when something feels wrong. A few days ago, my teenage daughter came to me quietly and said she had found a small lump in her breast.Just like that, my…

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