Vartabedian: The Ever-Changing World of Grandchildren
Where does the time go? Just yesterday, it seems, my grandchildren came into the world. I saw them crawl. I watched with pride as they spoke and sang. I cringed when objects were hurled at […]
Where does the time go? Just yesterday, it seems, my grandchildren came into the world. I saw them crawl. I watched with pride as they spoke and sang. I cringed when objects were hurled at […]
From the Word Lab The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his mother at a range of 500 yards, I should call him a good shot, but not […]
I’ll be using the term figureheads without its usual derogatory connotation, so please take it that way, as I couldn’t come up with a better term. By figurehead, I mean anyone who has come to […]
The State Department has acted negligently and possibly in contempt of Congress by withholding assistance that the latter had expressly allocated to Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh) during the past 12 years. The Armenian National Committee of America […]
How about spilling some of my beans? I have the first swizzle stick from the drink my wife and I shared 45 years ago at our wedding reception. For some reason, I held onto it […]
In recent years, Armenian Americans have filed several lawsuits in U.S. courts against insurance companies, banks, and the Republic of Turkey, seeking compensation for losses stemming from the genocide of 1915. For the first time, […]
The Turkish state recently made a simultaneously liberal and fascistic move on the same subject: the “Armenian issue.” The result was a perfect example of what makes Turkey the setting of the grotesque co-existence of […]
I did a triathlon last Sunday. Are you impressed? Well, I suppose you should temper you oohs and aahs with the knowledge that I hiked, biked, and swam all in a day, but just a […]
The books other readers might recommend don’t always turn into my idea of a best seller. But the only way to finds out is to give it a whirl. More often than not, the suggestion […]
On Nobility We, my lords, may thank Heaven that we have something better than our brains to depend on. …Lord Chesterfield A Modern Proverb More important than possessing knowledge is the ability to […]
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