Every so often the family that I work for goes away and deigns not to take me along. This means a free paid holiday for myself, so I don’t feel any grudge about it. Perhaps I was momentarily miffed that I would not be going to the Maldives because heaven knows I am [...]

I was later to the whole Facebook party than most.  I flippantly attempted to ignore the entire scenario. You see, I have learned something about myself in my adult age that I am not so happy about. I occasionally affect a “cooler-than-thou” attitude when it comes to popular culture. If the masses [...]

Here is the new version of the video we uploaded yesterday, but this version is high-resolution version of it. Just right click the below link and save as, you can watch it on your desktop with windows media player.
Istanbul Video, the hi-res version: right click here and save as to download the video

I have spent the morning reading the lovely comments and feedback from all of you about the video. We wanted to thank you so much for your attention and enthusiasm. BUT…..as you may have noticed, the music used in that video was not composed by us, therefore, Google is already kindly asking us to remove [...]

Istanbul

This video was made by my creative partner and love-of-my-life type person, Barış Tarımcıoğlu. It was originally envisoned to be a gift to my family. I have been living here in Istanbul, Turkey for nearly four years now and, with the exception of one fantastic brother, my family has not visited. Even [...]

Hello, all. Welcome to my latest attempt to empty the contents of my brain in a satisfactory manner.
I am once again Thoroughly Modern Tara. I am now a Dot Com. woohoo!
As some of you may know, this voyage began nearly four years ago with a simple and free blog that was basically [...]

These are picture from our recent vacation in southern Turkey. It would become the birth of much inspiration.