When Sharon lived in İstanbul in the 2000s, she wrote for publications such as Time Out, Lonely Planet, Taste Anatolia, and a local Türkiye-based newspaper. Much of her work focused on food and culinary culture, but she also wrote a weekly column called Life Along the Haliç, capturing the rhythms, characters, and quiet moments of life by the Golden Horn.

One night, the entire online archive of that newspaper vanished. Years of stories, observations, and memories were simply gone. This blog is her way of bringing some of those lost pieces back to life — revisiting a city in transformation through her words, and preserving small moments that deserve to be remembered.