We’re presently at Costa Navarino in Messina, Greece, a super-luxurious resort complex which is devoted to ecological reform as well as s...

On Saturday, July 9, in Ioannina, the capitol of Epiros in northern Greece, we had lunch at Spuntino, an Italian restaurant set on the e...

  A couple of days ago, my husband and I were staying in an antique-filled small hotel in Chania, Crete, which had, in the parlor, a wall...

In the continuing saga of her (first) pregnancy, daughter Eleni still has a firm grip on her sense of humor (and irony) as she  writes occas...

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

                                                                 (My father at about 2) Back in the seventies, when I was giving birth ...

(Please click on the photos to see them whole) I was looking through the new (August) issue of   Smithsonian Magazine when I saw the win...