The Froth

Today is for my sister

29. May 2008

Today is my sister’s birthday. I wish her happiness but she already knows how to do this. She is one of my greatest friends and has the biggest heart. She is both my little sister and my older sister. She is my little sister because she is always fun and playful (and actually younger) and [...]

Ten years later

29. January 2008

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Sometime this Christmas I went out with M for a drink. There is a little bar in the neighbourhood where I grew up, so that’s where we went. Do you know how sometimes you have a feeling you are going to meet someone and it comes true? I used to have a best friend when [...]

90% of me

18. January 2008

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One of my favourite songs of all time is Gwen McCrae’s "90% of me is you". If you don’t know the song but you like soul-funk you are going to love it. Listen loud though because her voice is a true gem. If you use Explorer, you might need to right click and hit "save [...]

You are loved

27. July 2006

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This is a post for a friend who is sad. I want to let her know she is not going to be sad forever. I want to tell her she is a courageous and real woman. I say real, because many people who find friends and lovers on the internet, do not grasp the [...]

Get on that plane

29. June 2006

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If you rang my bell in the morning, we would go to Plaka, in Old Athens, and have breakfast there, in a little café. They make pastries, pies, juices, nice coffee and they have lots of teas. Then, we would stroll aimlessly, so you could see the architecture, the street vendors, the monuments. We’d [...]

Somewhere, everywhere,anywhere

28. June 2006

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The swallow of summer, the seamstress of summer, She scissors the blue into shapes and she sews it, She draws a long thread and she knots it at the corners. Ted Hughes- Work and Play My friend Pille visited me on Sunday. I know her from my other blog neighbourhood, and I mean my recipes blog. [...]

The rebellious mouse and other stories

23. June 2006

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M wants us to go to the gay pride festival. I am all for that, I just don’t know if I want to go to the gay pride parade, and look like a dwarf among all the beautiful, long legged drag queens. No, I am joking, I don’t have a problem with dwarves either. [...]