I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as...

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. ‘Nothing in excess,’ professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and...

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the...

She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.

This is not only a full moon for me. This is an image of your face for me.

She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and yet… the way she sat, poised, calm, clear like a full moon night, she seemed much...

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.

There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill or from a high terrace could steal your breath away. The moon would...

The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.

The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.

Do you think that too,” she said, “that I have slept too long in the moonlight?

When the full moon was out the other night, it created one of the most spectacular scenes that I have seen in the Alps. The high glaciers of the Mont Blanc range were glowing an...