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Greek Island Adventure, Part 2
Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals is the reason my parents loaded their three young daughters and camera equipment into the back of a red VW camper van and drove across Europe to go and...
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Greek Island Adventure, Part 3
Have you ever daydreamed about something, and then that daydream came true? When I was seven years old, that happened to me. It all started one grey, rainy January day on a family walk in Ireland, the...
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Corfu Adventure, Part 4
When my family and I arrived on Corfu in 1973, we were part of a long line of blow-ins. For a small island, it has a blockbuster of a history, and not surprisingly, features in Greek mythology....
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Greek Island Adventure, 5
Angeliki putting on her national costume with Katerina & Yaya’s help In 1973 as a seven-year-old child living the idyllic life on the island of Corfu, I was oblivious to the fact that Greece was in...
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TOP TEN THINGS I’VE LEARED ABOUT BLOGGING
Blogging is not for sissies. It takes time, focus, and hard work if you want to put out blogs that won’t make you cringe down the road. But the rewards are big. As the Write Eejit comes to the end of...
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Time Worn
Last March my family and I spent an amazing ten days in Istanbul. Of course I took way too many photographs. Everywhere you turn, the city is a repository of history. Looking back on them, a...
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DREAM OF DROWNING (Trust)
I dreamed so vividly I felt it in every fiber of my body when I...
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THE ROLE OF MEMORY IN STORYTELLING
My youngest son just turned seven. Watching him play with his birthday Lego, it dawned on me that he has reached my memory lifetime, that is, the age from which I have distinct memories. It was also...
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DANDELION
A little girl handed me a limp, browning dandelion the other day. “You need to put it in water,” she said, smiling hopefully. I knew the sentiment all too well. How often had I fallen victim to the...
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CHILDHOOD WALK
Early sunlight seeping around the curtains. Blackbird singing. Day beckoning. Slip out of sleeping house. Shimmering jewels of dew on the grass. Wet ankles. Air fragrant with spring. Pass the Hawthorn...
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HALLOWE’EN
Hallowe’en is the holiday that most reminds me of my Irish upbringing. I well remember trailing costumes, cobbled together from grown-up cast offs, down muddy country lanes, only seeing the puddles...
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