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I’ve just returned from a week spent in the midwest helping my parents move out of the farm they’ve lived in for what seems like forever.  I think it was was sad for everyone to see the farm change hands, but my parents have grown too old for the demands of so much land.  Chores [...]

Your One and Only Life…

…what will you do with it?

Will you learn to dance the flamenco in Spain?
Will you help bring peace to the Congo?
Will you perfect the chocolate souffle?

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Ode to a Grecian Cheese Pie

Thou still unravish’d pie of deliciousness,

Thou foster-child of Feta and slow Time
Sylvan chef, who canst thus express
A culinary tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What pilates-trained Americans run at the sound of thy name,
Seeking Angioplasties or EKG’s, or both,
From Cardiologists in the dales of Johns Hopkins?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What [...]

Update

1.  I’m in a cafe in Skyros expecting the divine Ms. P to arrive sometime tomorrow.  I have a room overlooking the harbor and the ferry blasts “Thus Spake Zarathustra” every time it docks, so I can’t miss it. I’m so excited to see her.  It’s been a month since I had any contact with [...]

How to Lighten a Suitcase

1. Leave a pile of clothes in your last hotel. Do this accidentally, so that you don’t even notice until after you’ve arrived at your next island destination.  Make sure the pile of clothes contains all your favorite/most expensive goodies, like the cute terry beach skirt you bought in Nantucket and your Juicy Couture shorts [...]

The American Peso

As I was waiting for my flight to Zurich to leave from Dulles, I decided to be super-prepared-girl and exchange some dollars for Euros.  I handed the nice man at the Travelex counter $500, he handed me back a couple of bills.  I waited for more.  I looked down at the bills, then up at [...]