Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Spyro Touched So Many Lives

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I was going to write a blog post about our nephew Spyro Economou, who died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday, but then I read what our dau...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

The Children of Damascus

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The beautiful babies and children, wrapped in their white shrouds, laid in a row in the street in front of a mosque, while a voice on a loud...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Writing Your Own Obituary?

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You probably saw, as I did, the obituary of Seattle author Jane Catharine Lotter, who died of cancer on July 18 at the age of 60. ...
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Amalia Discovers Athens and the Grande Bretagne

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  Amalia had only two days at the end of her trip to Greece to enjoy Athens, but staying at the Grande Bretagne Ho...
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Monday, August 5, 2013

The Stories Behind Two Infamous Photos Documenting the Evils of Slavery

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Today the New York Times on line--The Opinionator--published another essay of mine about  Civil War photography--this one telling the storie...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Are You Happiest at Age 23 and 69 and Gloomiest at 55?

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Yesterday in the local paper I read an essay by syndicated columnist Tom Purcell saying that a study published by the Cen...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Amalia Discovers Her Greek Village with Fountains, a Manhunt and Ice Cream

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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...
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