1987

I spent most of my childhood feeling like an adult trapped in a child’s body. I can vividly remember the terror I felt when I was just five and a…

1988

In my mind I was already the first child astronaut, a faithful companion to Sherlock Holmes & a…

1986

I am sitting at the kitchen table in our home in Athens. My legs can’t reach the floor because I am four years old. Next to me, my father and his…

1989

I was with two friends in the garden when one of them had an epiphany: “My mum is not at home…

1982

In June of 1982 E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, wanted to go home. A few months earlier, I found the…

1991

At that time I like most of my classmates, I was wearing imitation brands. I shyly tried to hide…

Somewhere in the 80s: The Cassette Recorder/ To Κασετοφωνάκι

“Unhappiness passes with time but misery is incurable,”…

1990

I read the book frantically. I used a flashlight and read all through the night under my blankets…

Somewhere in the 80s: The Kiosk, Το Ψιλικατζίδικο

My uncle Mimi and his wife had a kiosk. Kiosks at…

1985

Recruiting my sister and my mom’s best friend’s two sons to the P.A.G (Party Against Grownups)…