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We’ve been hoarding an unbelievable amount of stuff from clothes and shoes to magazines and books and makeup and gifts of lipsticks and vials of perfumes and bits and bobs and odds and sods that were blocking the free flow of all this cosmic energy. I read somewhere that if […]
Do you remember in one of my previous posts how I cautioned against swaggering remarks and how my old uncle used to say that someone up there was always listening in and would have the last laugh on us? Well, I have yet another confession to make. I used to […]
Life is a journey. We’ve heard this one before and one too many times and it seems like some glib phrase to impress…but… it rings true…every word of it. For me the journey is all about the little things in life that poke me in the ribs and laugh in […]
I sought freedom, to liberate myself from a certain thought and habit that had surfaced like a demon during these dark and dour months, when the sky frowned and furrowed its brows and the rain came in starts and stops. The problem was…my washing. In warmer drier months, it’s a […]
My rose bush of little white roses, a hybrid variety, forced into domestication, to sprout flowers perfectly shaped and to blossom in spring and early summer…has succumbed to the call of its untamed beginnings. Under the Cretan sky with the frigid breath of the icy mountain ridges and the salty […]
Two weeks before Christmas I was soaking up all that festive cheer, sauntering in the streets and stopping in front of shop windows and admiring the season’s apparel on skinny, long-legged, small-waisted manikins. They were wrapped in clothes of emerald green, the ones that glide over your body as you […]
The grey skies had been pouting and threatening to pour it all down when I called my friend last Friday to ask whether she wanted to resume our sulky weather habits…to sip on some alcoholic beverage to warm our chilly bones and just catch up…we’re always catching up and I’m […]
Yes…autumn is the time of the year for letting go…of buckets of summer sunshine and ripe fruit with sweet dribbling juices and buzzing bees and the shrieking of children splashing in the waves and need I say more. Chania has gone quiet now with the children off to school and […]
We took whatever was available for a speedy escape from Chania before the autumn rains swept in and reminded us that summer was actually over. And the only place that was not fully booked was Budapest. We had never been to Budapest, a name that evokes images of sepia photos […]
Louise taught me one thing…be careful what you say or do in front of a toddler. They’re little sponges, they soak up everything and squirt it right back at you. She was 17 months when she flew in with her parents in July for the summer holidays. The parents needed […]