Solastalgia
Back in April when I read that month’s issue of National Geographic, I learned a new word—solastalgia—which described a phenomenon that resonated within me. According to the article – “A World Lost” – in which […]
Back in April when I read that month’s issue of National Geographic, I learned a new word—solastalgia—which described a phenomenon that resonated within me. According to the article – “A World Lost” – in which […]
Here we are, a little over three months since counter-disease-spreading measures were implemented in the US (of course some countries started sooner and others later) to stem the tide of the COVID-19 virus. Now, with […]
The Los Angeles Times had a very interesting article titled “In Mideast, TV becomes battleground” on December 9, 2019. It turns out Ankara has been wreaking mischief not just through its multi-level interference (including outright […]
No Justice, No Peace. Isn’t that what we, Armenians, have been saying, in one way or another for over a century? Isn’t that what we “say” every year, at least once, on one infamous date? […]
On May 28th, Independence Day (the OG one, of course, not the September 21 re-independence of 1991), I finished Houri Berberian’s latest book “Roving Revolutionaries” (well worth reading if you can make the time). Some […]
Unbelievable…well, maybe not given its leader’s questionable relationship with legality, and disgusting, and politicized, and erosion of the law, and unprecedented according to experts in the field. In case you haven’t guessed yet, this is […]
With apologies to readers for the week I took off from writing, I’m back with the COVID-instigated doldrums behind me. It has served as something of an unexpected stay-cation and has, perhaps perversely, been somewhat […]
There’s been a frightening dearth of activity this April’s “Genocide Season” with commemorative activities formally “suspended.” This is understandable… up to a point. We are well past that point. Many of the lectures, presentations, seminars, […]
The gems being discussed this week are not stones, but the conspiracy theories that are flying about regarding the germ-of-the-day, the coronavirus sickening millions and killing tens of thousands of people all over earth. The […]
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