Athina — Today, there was a Christmas tree waiting, with blinking lights and everything. A surreal note amidst the grimness, but it helps, if you ask me. I took the bed next to the door so that I could look at it during my chemo. I observe the faces of the relatives - especially the sons and daughters - when they stand on the doorway looking at their loved ones receiving their treatment. They seem so worr...
Athens — When it was time for Taxol to come in (that’s the drug that will be making all my hair fall off, and the first of the hardcore chemicals), I put on music. I chose my Pan Am compilation, and boy did it...
Athina — Today, one month and three weeks after my surgery, I choose to write again because today I can write again. The surgery went very well, but my recovery took forever. Today is the first day I am feelin...
Athina — Don’t know who invented the MRI scanner and who came up with this amalgam of sounds produced by the machine, but they sure had lots of imagination. When I entered the MRI room I was met by a sound th...
Waiting Rooms
Farewell
Mimis – ‘The Source of Eyeglasses’
Acropolis
Expensive hobby
Making Athens look small with a long lens
Farmers’ Markets
Alternative Prayer Book
At The Acropoliiis
Heart
Neighbor
MRI
How to be alone
Chemical Christmas
The Fall
Killing yourself in Hollywood
Divine Intervention
Chemo
It's a wrap with a swing!
Private Screening
Don't forget to smile!
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
Limestone chickenheads
Vintage routines
I hear music...
Could we have your potatoes?
EXT. BATHROOM - DAY
So the challenge begins...
Challenge accepted!
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Lifting.
Summer in the city
I could stay here forever.
High. Higher. And Even Higher.
When I met Rock 'n' Roll
The Wings
What.
My Breakfast
Half way across
Clean Monday
Urban Landscape
Decaying beauties
greece
Oh my!
"Say we are Unagi!"
Greek for 'Styrofoam' pronounced 'Felizol' - love the font
'The Blue Apartment Block'
New York Brunch
Christmas is served
Kitchen Stories
abandoned vitraux
coffee and prayer
Dark Room
Forum.
I enter the cafe, a small arty-looking place with cork walls on Exarchia Square that I’d passed a few weeks earlier.
Ferry delayed - in that limbo that only intrepid adventurers experience! Going from 'crazy' Mykonos to Syros - what next?
Very old things.
Exploring the gorge in Crete.
Sunset gorge.
Under construction.