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May 6, 2015
Seeing Our Surroundings
It’s so easy to rush through the city without ever really seeing our surroundings, but there is beauty everywhere if only we open our hearts to the world around us. I spotted this building with such pretty architectural detailing in Lenox Hill.Filed under: Life Tagged: New York
May 1, 2015
Kalo Mina! Happy First Day of May!
Kalo Mina! Happy first day of May!! May this month be full of reading in the park, adventuring in foreign lands, and shedding layers, both literally and metaphorically.Filed under: Greekish Tagged: holiday, Kalo Mina
April 30, 2015
Christina Rossetti and Jack Kerouac Describe the Sound of the Sea
As April closes out, I dream of warmer days spent reading poetry by the sea. I think of Jack Kerouac captivated by the sound of the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, the poem “Sea” he wrote about it and how his friend and fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti influenced the poem. Years earlier, Gothic poet Christina Rossetti […]
April 28, 2015
Springtime Champagne Pink Lemonade Punch
What’s springtime without a festive punch? When I had a little brunch soiree, I made these champagne pink lemonade cocktails. A splash of ginger ale made them extra bubbly! They had fresh strawberries and flower petals for garnish. Filed under: Food and Drink Tagged: food and drink
April 23, 2015
Allen Ginsberg Channels Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg hung a portrait of Walt Whitman in his home. He said his most memorable day as a student at Newark’s East Side High School was when his English teacher Francis Durbin read Whitman’s “Song of Myself” to the class. You can really hear a lot of Walt Whitman in Allen Ginsberg’s poetry. I mean, […]
April 22, 2015
Happy Earth Day! …Unless You Like Greek Yogurt
Happy Earth Day! …Unless, like me, you love Greek yogurt. I just found out it takes 90 GALLONS of water to produce one teeny tiny container of Greek yogurt. But if you are looking for a few Greek yogurt recipes, try these delicious recipes I made: FAGE yogurt topped with fresh strawberries and bananas FAGE Greek […]
April 20, 2015
My Easter Soiree
Easter was a special time in my family when I was growing up. And by Easter, I of course mean Greek Orthodox Easter. Every year, we’d pile into the station wagon and drive down to Baltimore to spend the most important religious holiday for Greek Americans with my father’s side of the family. There would be a […]
April 17, 2015
Friday Links: Helping Others Is More than Wishful Thinking
Make a Wish matches! It’s been forever since I did a link roundup! I’ve been trying to focus more on my memoir writing these days, but I’ve run across so many great news stories and websites lately that I wanted to share with you: My friend Gregory Andrus has been taking these stunning photographs of the Jersey […]
April 16, 2015
Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and the Road Not Taken
In honor of National Poetry Month, I wanted to share some poems. I write a lot about the road. I write about Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and even wrote a whole book about it called Burning Furiously Beautiful. When I was much younger, though, all the way back in elementary school, I encountered Robert Frost’s “The Road […]
April 15, 2015
Should a New York Couple Follow the Husband’s Greek Tradition?
The other day a friend of mine posted an article on Facebook about how his friend, a New Yorker of Greek descent, has taken to the internet because his wife doesn’t doesn’t want their unborn baby to be named Spyridon. Here’s how the headline read for the Daily Mail article: Couple launches online campaign to […]
