About Me

I was born in Athens in the mid-1950s and grew up in a city that felt very different then—louder in spirit perhaps, but smaller in scale, and still full of corners, habits, and characters that stayed with you.

Later, I drifted south, toward the quieter suburbs by the sea, back when those neighborhoods felt almost abandoned in winter. Athens was never just one city to me. It was many cities at once, depending on where you stood, what decade it was, and how old you happened to be.

I spent more than thirty years working in shipping—commercial maritime, for the non-Europeans—before life took a different turn and I caught the computer bug. That shift eventually carried me much farther than I expected.

In the mid-1990s, I emigrated to the United States, where I built a new chapter of life, met my second wife, and raised a family across two worlds. My two sons now live in the States.

In 2024, my wife and I decided it was time to stop working, slow down, and move back to Greece to enjoy life a little more deliberately. That return stirred something in me. Old memories resurfaced. Small details came back. So did the humor, the contradictions, the cultural collisions, and the stories I had been carrying around for years without quite realizing it.

That is how My Big Fat Funny Life began.

This is a place for stories, observations, memories, and the odd little truths that come from living between countries, languages, and versions of yourself. Some are funny. Some are nostalgic. Most are a little of both.

I write from Kalamata, but a large part of me will always be walking somewhere through Athens.

Siga, siga 💙

Nick in Kalamata