I have an op-ed piece running in today’s International Herald Tribune, which is online here: Speed up or get out of the way.

On Monday, the Cambridge Union Society debated “This House would return the Parthenon Marbles to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.” Sponsoring the debate was easyCruise. The travel company offers a Classical Greece cruise that includes a visit to the Acropolis, the tourist attraction bereft of most of its treasures. An Acropolis reunited […]

1. Who are you?
I’m a twice divorced mother of one son and two dogs, a baby boomer who has lived during the most amazing of times, a former critical care nurse, an obsessed chess player, a heterosexual, pot smoking, martooni guzzling bon vivant reeling in the years. I’ve had many, many obsessions and my friends […]

I’m finding these five minute interviews fascinating. There’s so much that can be uncovered in just five minutes. I’ve been thinking about asking questions. I don’t think we ask enough questions. Even the silliest question, if it has a sincere motivation can open up new possibilities.
Anyway, here’s Ed Touchette. Perfect company for a Sunday.
1. Who […]

1. Who are you?
Ellen Meister, mom, wife, sister, daughter, writer, blogger, friend, lover, minivan-driver, contact lens wearer, migraine sufferer, cook, reader, hugger, laundress, skeptic, believer, supermarket shopper, homework helper, laugher, weeper, Scrabble player, PTA member, interviewee.
2. What do you write?
What I AIM to write is smart, funny novels about women and their relationships with one […]

A special edition of The Five Minute Interview today just because NaNoWriMo starts today. Special Edition interviewee is Foster Trescot. He is not doing NaNo. I am not doing NaNo. That doesn’t matter. It’s an absurd life and everything has absolutely nothing to do with anything else, and yet, everything is, somehow, related to everything […]

Meanwhile, in a previous issue of Odyssey magazine, I’ve a brief article that introduces some books one might like to read if one is keen on getting to know Greece/Greeks through fiction.
Click on the magazine cover to get the PDF:

My article on Maria Spiropulu is in the current issue of Odyssey magazine. Read it.

Sydney’s philosophical taverna
Australia’s olympics of the mind
KATHRYN KOROMILAS  
FOR the classical Greeks a notion of health meant both an active mind and an athletic body. During the 2000 Olympics, thousands of bodies spilled into the city of Sydney all trim, taut and terrific - the athletic ideal. The body, its beautification, its youthfulness, its athleticism […]

Searching for Harold Pinter in Athens
KATHRYN KOROMILAS  
  
Harold Pinter was in Athens to attend performances of two of his plays ‘Ashes to Ashes’ at the Nea Skini Theatre on Saturday and ‘No Man’s Land’ at the Aplo Theatro on Sunday.  
HAROLD Pinter was in town this weekend. A select group of Athenians - members of […]