Category Archives: Family Living in a world that is adjusting to a pandemic is not nearly as much fun as I expected. Like millions of people all over the country, I am now out of work, and today is my fourth day of what has been defined by my employer as an indefinite furlough. I am sitting at […]  My family isn’t Greek by heritage, though I would say I was raised in a house that embraced all things Grecian, from art and literature to cuisine. My mom used to read to us from D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, something that served me well as an art history major in college. Not only did we […]  I have a love-hate relationship with it, but lately, I’ve been entertaining the notion of decorating my body. Suddenly I find myself seriously considering getting a tattoo. Almost everyone I know between ages 20 and 40 has one, but I am a generation removed from them. When in my thirties I decided— OK, was dared to […]  Summer is ratatouille season, and though ratatouille doesn’t begin with E, eggplant does. My letter E options were limited, a mere 58 pages. There was an egg cookery section, English cookery and a large section on Entertaining. There were also a few recipes for eel and elderberry, that I ruled out, and a small section of […]  July 2008 was the last time I saw Richard. An old high school friend decided we should all gather to celebrate the year we would turn 50. There followed a flurry of emails the chain growing daily. It included old friends, people I’d barely known and Richard who’d been one of my closest friends through […] |
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