I am Barbara J. Isenberg, writer, expatriate, wife, cat-lover and traveller. I hightailed it out of my central Pennsylvania hometown when I was 16 to travel to Turkey for the first time and fell in love with this crazy country I now call home.
Eight years, a high school diploma, a university degree, a marriage, two jobs, a cross-country move, another cross-country move and two cats later, I came back to Istanbul with my husband in August 2007.
I convinced Jeff (that’s the husband) to move to Istanbul sight unseen. Jeff and I applied for jobs in Istanbul, and he got one first. I quit my job at the newspaper, sold nearly everything we owned and visited the vet countless times to prepare our cats for life abroad. And then I bought two one-way tickets to Istanbul.
Two years later, in the summer of 2009, we moved to Izmir and are now living on the Aegean.
Please feel free to contact me at barbara@turkishmuse.com or like Turkish Muse on Facebook.
