I logged into Weather Underground this morning for a quick view of what the days are going to be like in Ashland for my long weekend stay.  Years ago I'd pinned four frequently looked at cities to the WU menu. There along with home town San Francisco, destination Ashland, and ancestral home of Middleborough is Kayseri, Turkey. Four years ago I'd put Kayseri on my dashboard so I could easily find out what the weather was like for the then-21-year-old gay refugee I talked with almost daily on Skype.  He'd escaped with his life from Iran into Turkey where he was [...]