Stella is on vacation in the cradle of Western civilization.
She traveled through tiny streets and the unlikely police blockades of the neighborhood of Exarchia to see a movie.
The movie theatre is open air in the middle of several apartment blocks. The fountains gurgle before the film starts and they play 70s music. It’s […]
As regular readers know, Stella recently moved out of the little gem of a house in D.C. that once contained a delightful garden. (And thank you, dear readers, for your outpouring of garden grief sympathy.)
I set out on my home-seeking journey for a one-bedroom condo with a set of very precise criteria: price range; location […]
I have this urge that is harder and harder to fight where I walk up to people and touch the middle of their upper back, gently touching that point which makes you want to open out your chest and straighten the spine.
I am horrified by bad posture. All around me I see old women […]
Listen,
all creeping things -
the bell of transience.
- Issa
It was not wise to go back. You could have warned me. But he wanted to know how to care for the grapevine. And potted plants had been placed on the stoop. That was reassurance.
I could not assume the new people would take up the […]
There’s nothing the English like better than a good murder mystery. We have produced the kings and queens of the genre from Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers to Ruth Rendell, P.D. James and Dick Francis. In fact, on Amazon there is a sub-category of British Detectives. We are also […]