From the author’s personal collection. According to a notable archaeologist, “Our childhood memories constitute our own personal archaeology.” I for one am totally on board with this saying; digging in the past is utterly meaningful and revealing as...
Page of a 70s scrapbook in Greek, asking for the participants’ hobbies. http://asginoume.blogspot.gr/2007/02/blog-post_7571.html Did you use to keep a scrapbook as a teenager? In my school days back in the early 90s, it was a pretty serious...
Pakistani schoolgirls pray for Malala’s recovery. Photo: AFP http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19899540 On Tuesday October 9th, two days before the International Day of the Girl Child, 14 year-old Malala Yousufzai and two more Pakistani girls were...
Although I am miles away from babies, I am familiar with the agonies and insecurities that most of my friends experienced on their way to parenthood. Why some wannabe parents tend towards the preference of the sex of their future child is so beyond me. Isn’t the...
Detached from the Greek music scene for as long as I remember myself listening to music, I am more of a committed admirer of international music waves. From time to time, though, the few remarkable exceptions are worth mentioning. Being my recent explorations, I would...
