The Surfers at Sagres

The Surfers at Sagres

Photo: amaianos from Galicia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons are a species all their ownamphibious, part Selkiegypsies of this watery realm               at the end of the worldworshippers of moon and tidesarriving in caravans, VW vanspiled high with boards and...
Soulmate Particles

Soulmate Particles

Photo by Maximilien Brice, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Inspired by a visit to CERN, Switzerland I come back home with my head filled with physics and heart filled with awe and start chattering to you. I gush about colliding particles and invisible dark matter...
Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Photo: Mahendra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Red, yellow, blue — houses by the edge of the northern seaI flip through my notes from ages agoships, mast to mastcourtyards with stairs and lanternsclay noses in a sculpture museumDegas, with his fondness for plump...
Swimmers in Copenhagen

Swimmers in Copenhagen

Photo: Vincents productions, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Six years ago in a study abroad dorm in Copenhagen I held a tub of peanut butter between my hands while Carissa peeled an apple beside me, we giggled like we were back in the fourth grade. Dipping the...
An Invitation to Velintonia, Half a Century Late

An Invitation to Velintonia, Half a Century Late

Photo: Nietanigal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The green gates of Velintonia had greeted me many summers before, lying just out of reach behind a crop of overgrown branches. I peered through the bars and noticed with relief that the “For Sale” sign was finally...
Greek Unorthodox

Greek Unorthodox

Photo: C messier via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 4.o O lovely red mullet, Anna said to the fish as Vassilis of the scraggly eyebrows in the agora, Chaniá’s covered market, held it up for her to inspect, cleaned and ready to wrap in paper once she agreed on...