Category Archive: Greece

Jan 02 2009

Olympia, mostly.

You might think me a bit frightened, seeing this menu–looking at it now, I just want to be back there. (This pic is from Nafplion–all others are from Olympia.)The helmet of Miltiades. At the Olympia museum. I remember reading, last year, how the flames of the wildfires were surrounding this museum; seeing the charred stumps …

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Dec 31 2008

Happy New Year!

Thank you all, all of you, for 2008. I could not have envisioned a better year if I had been able to plan it all out for myself in advance. I have tried putting a year-end thank-you to verse, but it was all just too trite and nasty, not representative of the deep gratitude I …

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Dec 31 2008

The Year In Cities

I am not one to often do memes(It’s just so hard to rhyme them, it seems)But this one I’ll tryCos the year that’s gone byHas been better than even my dreams! So, Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles (love that dog!) propogates a meme: list the places where you spent at least one night in 2008 …

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