Hagia Sophia from the Bosporus Strait. I had a birthday yesterday. Getting older every year. I got the cutest card from the cutest...

Note: I am no historian or expert on this structure or region. As such, I am referencing History.com for most of the information...

The Republic Monument in Taksim Square. The sculpture commemorates the foundation of Turkish Republic in 1923. After spending a little...

In Composition 101 at the University of Tennessee, students learn the basic elements of rhetoric and about how it applies to writing they...

In today's post, I'm going to share the last of my photos from Brasov. Brasov is so full of character. I loved it. On Saturday, I'll...

The city of Brasov cannot be separated from the mountain around which it was built. The first thing a visitor notices, in fact, is the...

In my last post, I talked about Peleș Castle in Sinaia, but I didn't talk much about the city of Sinaia itself. Although I was only...

I've been thinking about how buildings tell stories. Like novels, buildings tell stories about who we are, what we value, what time...

Towards the end of my stay in Brasov, I found myself rushing to get to the last of the many sites I wanted to see. Brasov's Cetatuia...

On the first day of school, after the usual introductions and syllabus review, I ask my students to pull out a sheet of paper and answer...

The White Tower (Turnul Alb) The Black Tower (Turnal Negru) Sitting beside the Council Square (Piața Sfatului) in Brasov are two striking...

In this post, I stray from my usual writing theme, though you had better believe I edited this for hours before posting! Reflection of...