Here today, gone tomorrow
Mary Murphy
May 23, 2014
I’ve been giving a lot of thought this week to the transiency of life. I’ve been paying more attention than usual to what I do
I’ve been giving a lot of thought this week to the transiency of life. I’ve been paying more attention than usual to what I do
A chandelier made from 7144 individual Swarovski crystal beads strung on strands falling from the ceiling would be at home in a ballroom in just
There’s a tradition in Skopje that is dying out. There are probably lots of these, but this particular one speaks to the stomach. For the
Just four days in Skopje taught me the value of suspending disbelief and just going with the flow. After a while, nothing seems too fantastical.
Voltaire reckoned that originality is nothing but judicious imitation. I wondered a little at that when I looked up to see something rather odd in
Although Skopje’s lords and masters continue to give the city a facelift, not everyone is happy with the result. Progress takes many shapes and forms
I’m old enough to fess up to a number of obsessions, one of which is statues. They fascinate me on two levels: what they represent
What I knew about Macedonia (as in the Republic of Macedonia and not the region in Greece) this time last week could have been written
Say Michelin and I think tyres. I think of the white plastic Michelin man that for so many years rode atop my neighbour’s haulage truck.
Of the 11 million said to have perished in the Holocaust, five million were not Jewish: they were Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, university professors from the
