Kristi Rendahl, Author at The Armenian Weekly

New Year’s Resolution: Humility

December 31, 2015 at 12:31 pm Kristi Rendahl 3

Special for the Armenian Weekly During a time when it seems no one can say the right thing because it is offensive to someone or it isn’t nuanced enough or it isn’t stated strongly enough, […]

Rendahl: The Shame of Difference

February 9, 2015 at 3:10 pm Kristi Rendahl 40

Special for the Armenian Weekly Armenia has been in the social media spotlight recently. According to a New Zealand man who is the father of a newborn with Down’s syndrome, his Armenian wife opted for […]

Rendahl: Pit Stops and Acts of Kindness

November 25, 2014 at 4:17 pm Kristi Rendahl 3

Special for the Armenian Weekly I left Tbilisi by car after work on a Friday last month. I’d been traveling in cramped airplanes for weeks, so I opted for a private car and driver to […]

Rendahl: I’m Still Here

September 23, 2014 at 2:29 pm Kristi Rendahl 10

Special for the Armenian Weekly A lesser-known fact about me is that I’ve played piano in church off and on throughout my life. These days I play at a small church in Minneapolis whenever I […]

Rendahl: What Time Is It?

July 29, 2014 at 11:47 am Kristi Rendahl 3

“There’s an Armenian here,” my former professor’s wife texted me from a dinner party in Fargo, N.D., a couple of months ago. “Do you want to come have dinner?” Naturally, I thought. I’m on my […]

Rendahl: Patterns

June 2, 2014 at 12:54 pm Kristi Rendahl 0

I was in Ecuador in March. My days were filled with meetings conducted in Spanish. The information was new, the people were complete strangers, and the altitude gave me a two-day headache. On the last […]

Rendahl: On the Road

April 14, 2014 at 11:42 pm Kristi Rendahl 2

There were two girls walking along the Interstate as I made my way back to Minneapolis from western North Dakota this past October. I’d passed their car on the side of the highway just before […]

Rendahl: ‘Why Should I Care about Being Armenian?’

March 20, 2014 at 9:50 am Kristi Rendahl 7

Special for The Armenian Weekly “The people here today obviously care about Armenia,” an attendee said to us, speakers at the recent Armenian Relief Society Eastern Region Youth Connect Program. “But what do we say […]

Rendahl: That’s No Bull

February 13, 2014 at 11:01 am Kristi Rendahl 5

Special for The Armenian Weekly I met a cowboy recently. A rodeo cowboy. He’s a small-town North Dakotan boy who lived in Los Angeles for years and then repatriated to our home state some years […]

Rendahl: A Year of Light

January 6, 2014 at 10:59 am Kristi Rendahl 4

For the past month I’ve been reading and re-reading parts of the journals my great-grandmother wrote and had published in the Benson County Farmers Press in the early 1950s. She was born in 1874—a mere […]