The Froth

Never beaten

15. April 2007

I thought I’d tell you an incoherent story. Back in November things started going seriously wrong for me. It was a combination of difficult situations topped with my sense of not belonging here. I cannot tell you how many times I thought I had lost it completely. I didn’t want to sleep. I didn’t want to [...]

To live

2. January 2007

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It’s the most wonderful day. Nothing extraordinary happened, but it just is (or am I on one of my highs? Hope not). It’s wonderful to live. I wanted to let you know. "It is Wonderful to live. My sword rusts In the pleasant rain. " Kenneth Patchen from "Gautama in the Deer Park of Benares"

My nephew is born

5. August 2006

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This is not my nephew, but being a relatively new arrival, he doesn’t like being photographed. A new hope has come into the world: My beautiful nephew. He was born last night. Likes: Eating his hand (as opposed to just sucking his thumb). Dislikes: Everything else.

Floating

2. June 2006

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It must be something I ate Here is the restaurant I went to last night for my friend’s birthday Aren’t they charmimg little girls? I haven’t come down from my high yet, in case you were wondering. It must have been something I ate. And it went on while I went out to pay bills and had [...]

World, I love you

1. June 2006

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The nice lady next door made coffee buns and brought me some this morning I am too happy today to write something coherent. It’s a bright day, my friends and family are healthy, it’s Anna’s (my friend since we were 10) birthday, we are going out to celebrate, my sister is coming back from Morocco, it’s [...]

New morning

8. February 2006

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Isn’t breakfast the best meal of the day? Because you can eat all you want without remorse. And it’s not fussy and you can gulp it down while reading the papers or your friends’ blogs, or Real Simple (this magazine is one of my latest obsessions. I went out last night during a blizzard in [...]

Naked Truman

1. February 2006

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Benaki Museum, a building I love It’s a bit Zen on the inside costumes a miniature model This has been Cultural Week for me. I went to another exhibition. This was by a famous –in Greece- set decorator and costume designer, Dionysis Fotopoulos, who has more or less worked in most of the theatrical productions that mattered [...]