Yesterday was like Christmas. My friend K from seminary came home, and he brought a bunch of things I purchased in Greece last summer. Since I was going on to Cyprus, I gave them to him to take home, but then when I didn’t go back to St. Tikhon’s, they were in Pennsylvania and I […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve written an update on my little roses. The one surviving stem is in the garden below a bougainvillea and behind a daisy plant, trying to stay out of the sun. But it keeps stretching its arms in that direction. It’s just put out a bud:

A while back I […]

Some of you may have heard crazy rumors about my pulling up stakes and taking to the road yet again. Alas, it is all true. So here is the story. This Fall I’m going to start a post-baccalaureate in Classics at U Penn, in Philadelphia. It is a one-year program intended mostly to prepare people […]

After vespers on Saturday, someone suggested we go out to eat at Pho Saigon. But I heard “Φὼς Ἱλαρόν.” There’s a restaurant in Riverside called Φὼς Ἱλαρόν!? Well, there is now. I’ve decided that henceforth I will so refer to that place and all other Pho Saigons in the world. And if I ever open […]