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Mary Murphy May 11, 2013
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May? Remember those girls? From the E.E. Cummings poem? Maggie and Milly and Molly and May went down to
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May? Remember those girls? From the E.E. Cummings poem? Maggie and Milly and Molly and May went down to
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of
Tell me that it’s not a place for tourists and I’ll move it to the top of my list. Tell me it might be dangerous,
Me: Why is there a cat on everything? Random local: I don’t know. Me: Why is the cat the symbol of Riga? Tourist Information Office
A good friend of mine once told me that he envied me my faith. Another, a confirmed ‘dirt man’, thought that it must make life
Notable by its presence I was in Riga, Latvia, last week and it was quite the experience. I know now a lot more about the
There’s a lot in what we choose to call a place. Names come with reputations. I know. I did my first MA in Oxford Brookes
It’s been a long time since I’ve visited a city I thought I might live in. No matter how fleeting the thought, it was there.
I was under the impression that the KGB had disbanded in 1991 – but apparently, it, or a version by the same name, is still
As I was reading Henning Mankell’s The dogs of Riga in January, I never guessed for a minute that I would end up in the