This morning I discovered that I am apparently old enough for newspapers to start explaining my vocabulary to the next Greek generation. The headline was: «Βέρος»: Μια σπάνια ελληνική λέξη που αξίζει…

Yesterday, Karen and I took Belle to see Efi, the recommended veterinarian. Belle is our adopted cat. Although, as Karen has already pointed out in a lovely piece of her own, that…

A few days ago, I left some Smyrneika koulourakia for Dimitris at our local mini market. I had made them myself. This will become important. Dimitris wasn’t there, so I left them…

Two years ago, Karen and I left Florida. I wrote about that little act of geographic self-defense here: Two Years After Ditching Florida I keep saying we “ditched” Florida, although technically that…

The other day, while writing about Christos, the man who looked at the damage to our car and calmly announced that he would simply fix it, I found myself using a very…

There is an older part of Kalamata that has always fascinated me. It was once something of a carpenter and furniture district, and traces of that world are still everywhere. Old workshops.…