The Summer of Discontent…

Last Friday, the headlines read that the summer of discontent began in Istanbul, Turkey. Those headlines spoke to me on a few levels.

Obviously I have a “Summer of” theme going with my novels, so that phrase right there struck me. But it mostly caused me to reflect on a trip I took to Greece and Turkey in January 2000.

FYI – my sister and I got a CRAZY deal on a cruise there. Apparently, the Y2K scare had resulted in high vacancies on the cruise ships. And well, there was a rather large earthqu...