Füsun A
FusunA
- Location
- Montréal, CANADA
- Birthday
- January 12
- Title
- Freelance Writer - jack of all genres;master of none.
- Company
- warm and genuine
- Bio
- I divorced my full time career of teaching after 25 years, because meanwhile I fell in love with freelance writing. Ever since, I decided to legitimize my ten-year fling which started in the new millennium.
Author of:
"WILL OF MY OWN - A Memoir"
Available at all major book outlets.
For a preview please visit:
http://www.dictionmatters.com/
MY RECENT POSTS
- Rebel with a conscience - Man
with a vision
May 17, 2012 12:00PM - Genesis
May 07, 2012 08:39AM - How I ducked the US customs
without a passport :o)
April 29, 2012 05:52PM - Happy Birthday, Thoth!
February 24, 2012 06:43PM - Happy Birthday, Mar10 !
March 09, 2012 11:09PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Your arguments
contradict your claim
:
"However, if it's
possible to keep
an…”
May 22, 2012 12:12AM - “"Any
disagreements?"
Yes.
Here are a few observations
from a
bilingual,…”
May 21, 2012 11:46PM - “You can accept what
is but still work on
what you want
to make
happen, Patrick.…”
May 21, 2012 11:08PM - “Those eclipsed cloud
formations look surreal!
Thanks for
sharing, Cathy.
Isn't th…”
May 21, 2012 10:59PM - “" We know that there
are many boys who become men
there
and many who do
not…”
May 21, 2012 09:30PM
Rebel with a conscience - Man with a vision
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The first part of this piece is titled after Governor Russ Peterson’s autobiographical book and written as a tribute to him for his legacy to Delawareans. On my recent family reunion in Wilmington, my sisters and I took Annecim on an outing along the… Read full post »
Genesis
- an allegorical photo essay
Look carefully. What do you see? On each branch, trunk, and root there are stories waiting to be discovered, interpreted, told. Let your imagination take wing and come along on the journey. I've been encountering trees, listening to their stories, learning from their wis
… Read full post »
Alright. I admit. Ducking the US Customs maybe slightly misleading, because I actually did not sneak in nor was I smuggled through the border – since that is what I may have inadvertently implied. It's not my intent to sound tabloid'ish to garner readers. Nor is my writing racist./… Read full post »
Happy Birthday, Thoth!
Happy Birthday, Mar10 !
The good Birthday Fairy has been very busy making sure that her friends were not forgotten on their special day, but cheered on and celebrated by us all, whose lives they enrich with their contributions here on Open Salon… Read full post »
Education is the way
Afghanistan school girls - photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP
Since the first International Women's Day in 1900 Women's rights have come a long way in securing votes for women, opening up access to male-only professions, and criminalising domestic violence and rape in the UK. The world is unquesti/… Read full post »
Turning Points
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light!
~Edna St Vincent Millay~
Confessions
~ written after a phone call on July 2, 1984~
What exactly did you expect to hear from my lips
when you casually picked up the phone
and decided to ask how I had been
and what I had done with my life
in the last fourteen years?
It wasn't your fault that we lost… Read full post »
Honor Weddings
I was Geeta's age, 13 (left) when I came to Canada, and Zainab's, 19 (right) when I first fell in love.
The entire Turkish community of Montréal was surprised when they received invitations for two weddings set one week ap
… Read full post »J'accepte
Last month my sister, the one who burned my screen top late last year, was in town and we spent another memorable day together. This time just with each other and our muses; not with laptops or ambiance candles. Warm, cardamom flavored chai replaced the gin and/
… Read full post »
"It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous crime,” Judge Robert Maranger stated as he listened to the jury's verdict, Guilty of premeditated murder, rendered on three members of an Afghanistan-born Montreal family on Sunday, January 29, 2012.
Ever since four bodies… Read full post »
Introducing Hiriko
A tiny revolutionary fold-up car as the answer to urban stress and pollution was unveiled at the EU on Tuesday, January 24, before hitting European cities in 2013. The car was designed in Spain's Basque country.
The electric two-seater with no doors is christened The "Hiriko", the Basq… Read full post »
Art for the Birds
Viewtiful
This is the world we see from our windows.
When it rains, we're grateful to be indoors ~
Watching bluejays in early spring
and other little friends who visit
some keep us company while we eat -
When winter's… Read full post »
"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off, of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
~Franz Kafka~
I often wonder whether my life might have
been very different if I had allowed candies melt in my mouth until
the/
Few among thousands
This is a picture I took on my last trip to Wilmington, DE. last month - in fact, last year as of today. The moon was a half circle high up in the sky and my camera's flash lit up what is seen in the frame. I love it so/… Read full post »
Winter Scenes
We call it "ispanakli yogurt" - spinach with yogurt - that first, light sprinkling of the season's snow. One can still see the sharp spikes of green grass sticking out of the lacey white layer - a prelude to a lot more, in store, to descend when it wills.
When I woke up on… Read full post »
My Christmas Tale
They
do speak, sir, although not with words.
The unicorn sent her thoughts right into my head.
I understood her meaning.
L. E. Engler, The
Forgotten Isle (2004)
Having been born into a Muslim family, I grew up without Christmas and Santa. Even though the birth place of St Nich… Read full post »
Seeing eyes
This enchanted, home-made greeting card has a very fascinating story which came about last week when, after having lived for a quarter of a century in this house, I noticed something that I had never seen before on the brick fireplace in the room.
Follow me… Read full post »
Freeze Framing 9/11
THE CLOUD
Image source:
Getty Images
2,752 people were killed when The World Trade Center towers in New York were destroyed a decade ago on September 11. Today, a new building design created by Dutch architectural firm MVRDV is angering peo/… Read full post »
Where skunks fear to tread. . .
It all happened when my youngest sister and I decided to get together for another one of our unforgettable reunions whenever she visits Montreal. She had recently returned from a vacation in Turkey and had so many memories to share in digital photos that witness some of her stories.… Read full post »
A peaceful world ~ photo essay
Life at the Montreal Biodôme
Thousands of animals and plants thrive at The Montreal Biodôme where huge collections are housed and monitored closely around the clock. Year round inventory is taken, feedings are scheduled, plants are watered, and sick animals are nursed, while life cont… Read full post »
Remembering my Grandfather
Ibrahim Ethem Demirhan 1881-1963
The only man I knew and loved as my grandfather all my life lives mostly in my memories of the brief encounters with him during my childhood. As with any brief-lived memory, time distorts truth or sweeps a forgiving brush over the creases and jagged line/… Read full post »
AMBITION: Teacher and Author
PROBABLE DESTINATION: Authorizing excuse slips.
These two sentences from the year book of my senior year of high school must have found a permanent place somewhere in the depths of my psyche to have a silent but very effective voice in mapping out my career, and prove… Read full post »
October Sun
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends! May we all have a reason to be thankful throughout the year.
Thanksgiving Day, Jour de l'Action de grâce, is an annual Canadian holiday to give thanks at the end of the harvest season for the year's bounty and crops. Canadians/… Read full post »
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