Author Archives: Art for Housewives
Hotel du Lac
I’m halfway finished reading Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner. Yesterday I watched the film based on the book. The story is somewhat sad and unresolved. Now I’m not sure that I want to finish the book. Hotel du Lac … Continue reading
A Life of Lacunae
It’s 9 a.m. and the cicadas are having a loud and lively jam session. It is understandable. They spend the first 17 years of their life underground then come out to mate. It’s the males that make all the noise … Continue reading
Takis Varvitsiotis, poet
Today I am a wanderer. I am wandering around my books, my plants, my unfinished projects. While wandering I came across a book of Greek poetry (with translation of course) that I bought in Athens 30 years ago. Only a … Continue reading
Sunbathers
It was a very hot day and the cats were spread out on the street like butter on hot bread.
The Towel Movement
We first started coming to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea, about 20 years ago. At the time, there was a more traditional Greek atmosphere compared to better known and more commercially developed islands. But over the years, that … Continue reading



