Category: Nikos Blog – English

I think the first person’s face – aside from those of my parents – that I readily recognized was newscaster Jim Lehrer from the PBS NewsHour. His calm voice and demeanor reached me as I was playing or eating dinner, always on in the background while my household kept up on the latest wars and…

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I wish everyone reading this a very happy holiday season in this most bizarre year. It’s a time of reckoning and taking stock of how we lived during the last twelve months. But it’s also a time to think about others and what you would wish for them in 2021.  I wish everyone lasting peace…

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Heading into the last month of the most chaotic year of my lifetime, it’s a good time to focus our attention on the positive things coming ahead. First we have the holidays which will undoubtedly raise people’s spirits, but will also ignite emotions over COVID, resulting in more cases, and sadly – and unnecessarily –…

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One time I was in my house with a new PSW [personal support worker]. He hadn’t been with us long, but I had already formed an opinion about him. It wasn’t that he was always on his phone or often arrived late – it was his attitude towards me and how he spoke to me…

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