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Let Yourself Be Gutted

6 May

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Tags: career advice, Cheryl Strayed, literature, quote, travel, travel writing, travelogues, writing life

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Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.

She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"

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We piled into the taxi and headed back up to Athens. Our time in Greece had come to an end, but it wasn’t just Greece we were saying good-bye to: it was my parents. While many of my American friends experienced for the first time what it was like to not see their parents for holidays, special events, surgeries, and help with babysitting amid COVID-19, not having regular time with my parents has been my reality for close to two decades now. There have been years when I haven’t seen my parents at all due to their expatriation/repatriation to Greece and my own firmly planted roots in the city of my birth, New York City. With the pandemic, I don’t know if they’ll ever set foot on American soil again. People tell me I’m lucky to have such a beautiful place to visit my family. I don’t feel lucky. I grieve that we are separated by an ocean. I grieve that I do not know when I will see my family again.
Zoe Kazan is the granddaughter of Greek director Ilia Kazan (“A Streetcar Named Desire,” “East of Eden”). She wrote and starred in “Ruby Sparks” with her partner Paul Dano and earned an Emmy nomination for her acting in “Olive Kitteridge.” More recently, she starred in the totally binge-worthy “Clickbait.”
In the land of olive groves.
None of us is perfect, but am I to blame or should I disregard others’ shortcomings, Epictetus?
Mentioned in Homer’s “Iliad,” Kyparissia is a popular breeding ground for the endangered loggerhead sea turtle.
It’s quotes like this that remind me that yes, yes, I am truly Greek….

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