This book is written for young-at-heart children and childlike adults, and it aspires to offer solace to them as well as to those ageless ones, meaning those who have not yet abandoned non-existence and those who have temporarily settled in it. I say "temporarily" because I firmly believe that we are recyclable material and, as such, will eternally have a role in this dream called life.

A. Ch.

"Grandmother Irene had the ability to create her own fairy tales from nothing. By giving human qualities to an object, an animal, or even a legume, she would set up an entire world where dramatic events would unfold. If I have any gift for building incredible stories with completely mismatched materials and narrating them in a convincing way, I owe it to Grandmother Irene, as well as to my maternal heritage from Crete, since, as is well known, Cretans are great storytellers, meaning superbly mythomaniac."