by Natalie Karneef | Oct 31, 2016
It’s 5:30 a.m. and I’m climbing out of a van in the middle of a large field in central Turkey. It’s still dark, but I can see the silhouettes of half-filled hot air balloons scattered about on their sides. We watch a man inject the closest one with...
by Natalie Karneef | Oct 1, 2016
So I went to the hospital this morning. I had to explain myself multiple times: first to staff at my hotel, then to the translator, and then, obviously, to the doctor. “What happened?” they asked. I so badly wanted to say that I was crawling through a tunnel in the...
by Natalie Karneef | Sep 27, 2016
Tegan is back onto solids now, but last night, after a feeble bowl of lentil soup, we lay low and watched Pitch Perfect. If you’ve never seen it, it’s about an all-female acapella group. Enemies become friends, friends become enemies, and there’s lots of great...
