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Clip: Green Wedding Shoes

  The lovely editors at Resource Magazine asked me to cover a story on indie, DIY weddings for their Spring 2013 issue. I got to interview Jen Campbell of the blog Green Wedding Shoes, who is so sweet and creative. You can pick up a print copy at your local Barnes & Noble or keep [...]

Friday Fun Fact: You Will See Lots of Candles This Weekend

You might think Easter already happened back in March, but if you’re Greek you know it’s this weekend. And with Greek Orthodox Easter comes the sight of men who don’t grow mustaches ironically and women who still believe in using lots of Aquanet carrying candles with little red wax-catching cups. If you missed it last [...]

David Amram Performs in NYC Twice Next Week!

In case you missed it in the comments section last week, David Amram dropped and mentioned he’ll be reading at Literary Manhattan’s 2013 Spring Symposium. David is one of my all-time heroes–exceedingly talented and generous. I never get tired of listening to him play music–and when I say “play,” it really does feel like play, [...]

Feasting on Flowers to Celebrate the Month of May

Kalo mina! It’s the first day of May–or as we Greeks call it, Protomaia or the Feast of the Flowers. Here in New York it’s been a long, long winter. Every time it started to warm up, it would start snowing. After we had one big snowstorm, a robin, that ephemeral symbol of spring, chirped [...]

The Quotable Greek: Gain Their Reputation

“Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.” ~ Epicurus Filed under: Greekish Tagged: Epicurus, Greek, perseverance, reputation, skill, The Quotable Greek

Happy 144th Birthday, Bertram Goodhue!

  American architect Bertram Goodhue was born on this day in 1869.  I went Church Hopping to the Church of the Intercession in Washington Heights and St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Midtown,  two churches he co-designed in New York. Extra! Extra! Read all about it!  In 1896, Goodhue designed a typeface for Cheltenham Press.  Called Cheltenham, [...]

Fun Fact Friday: The First AOL Instant Message Was Sent by a Greek

So here’s a fun fact I just read this week, via Yahoo: Ted Leonsis was the very first person to ever sent an AOL instant message. Another fun fact: Ted happens to be my friend George Koumantzelis‘ cousin. George has been an early and avid supporter of my Kerouac research and the book I’m coauthoring [...]

Clip: Trading Text for Visuals: Poets As Visual Artists

I had a really fun time putting together an article for Burnside about poets who are also visual artists. From the time I was a little child, I have been drawn to both the literary and visual arts worlds. Even in undergrad these two loves of mine co-mingled, as I majored in English and minored [...]

John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt, and Jack Kerouac Write about Nature

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” ~ John Muir It was conservationist John Muir‘s birthday over the weekend and yesterday was Earth Day. A few years ago, I had the great pleasure of editing a reissue (not the one pictured above) of his My First Summer in the Sierra and [...]

The Quotable Greek: The Most Difficult Thing in Life

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.” ~ Thales     Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Greek, memoir, Thales, The Quotable Greek, wisdom