• Short Stories,  Travel

    The Ground Beneath Me: A story of soil, sisterhood, and the home I found on a Turkish mountainside

      There are moments when intuition stops whispering and hits with a calm, full-body yes—a warm certainty that lights up my chest and gut and brings the vision in my head into sharp focus. I felt it in a café in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, scrolling through volunteer listings after months of drifting through Ecuador, Mexico, and now Bolivia, my days ruled by spontaneity and chance. The novelty was fading. I was craving structure, joining a team with shared purpose and dreamed of working with my hands and learning new skills. When I saw the listing for a mother-daughter-run organic homestead in Selçuk, Turkey, I knew instantly—I was going. Before I…