Who are you?
I don’t know.
[Don’t say that, say something humble and brave, about wandering and not being lost and how I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Quote a poet. Or a philosopher. Do not quote Star Trek. Please.]
I know who I am but I’m not going to tell you.
What do you write?
I write […]

Who are you?
A mass of fearons or is that leaptons trying to make sense of the world. No seriously I am just trying to make sense of the conflict that is life. We are given desires and dreams and then often the inability to make them real cos life comes along and makes it impossible. […]

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
I would like to creep back into the blogosphere once again - after a five-month period of utter silence - and announce that my silence was philosophical. I would like to say that words, that language - well, my words, my language - could not show […]

This past summer I was given Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire in its Greek incarnation - Ο Έρωτας θα ανατείλει ξανά. When I first opened the package and saw the title - Love Will Rise Again - I tried not to cringe at what on first look seemed like a melodramatic Greek romance novel. I […]

1. Who are you?
I’m that person who always wants to keep the discussion going another minute. The one who wants to explore the topic just a little further. The one you went to high school with who emails you out of the blue. As my little bio says, I’m an astronomer by training, a […]

Well, the books arrived. The Karyotakis, the crime novels, the kids’ school books, and the Greek grammar and language books for me.
My relationship with the Greek language is a long one. I first heard it before I was born. I’ve always been hearing it. I’ve always been speaking it. Sometimes speaking a funky mix of […]