One of my very first blog posts, back in August of 2009, was this one about the Great Pita Pie Festival in Lia, Greece, started by the firs...

Guest blogger today:  Daughter Eleni Gage Baltodano, who wrote this funny essay about part of our Greek odyssey in June, when she h...

The second chapter of Amalia’s Greek odyssey, after Mykonos, was a visit to the Greek village of Lia on the Albanian border, where h...

On July 19, Amalia went with her Mommy, her Yiayia Joanie, her Papou Nick and her honorary Yiayia, Eleni Nikolaides, to the village of Lia i...

Valentine’s Day was the launch of daughter Eleni’s second book, first novel, “Other Waters”, published, like her first book, “Nor...

I am not a good cook.   My mother Martha was not a good cook either. (If it was Thursday, you could be sure we were eating Tuna Cassero...

                        (This watercolor of the restored Eleni Gatzoyiannis house was done by visiting British artist, Bill Peake.) On Sat...