Lisa Morrow

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Highly recommended: Lisa Morrow's Writing Retreat Turkey 2025

Writing about what you saw on your travels and recording much loved family stories is a wonderful way to capture memories and share special moments from your life with others. Yet many people don’t know how to effectively use what they see, live, and experience and end up with diaries and notes full of random snippets of information. 

View of blue sky and seas from the front of a sailboat. From Highly recommended: Lisa Morrow's Writing Retreat Turkey 2025

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Read This: Longing for Istanbul: The Words I Haven't Said Yet

She's done it again. With her latest book, featuring 11 beautiful, powerfully written essays, author Lisa Morrow shares the joys and challenges of living in Istanbul, Turkey. The essays span the gamut of emotions and experiences of living abroad, from small daily details to larger, overarching themes, and from vocabulary to cultural differences to the magic of finding home.