The weight of the word in a teenager’s mouth is a heavy thing … especially when that word is Armenian.  Last year, I served on the jury for the “Tsil” creative competition — an initiative by the Amrots Foundation that...

EXTRA! The Armenian Weekly has offered me my own column. Me, a columnist? The guy who’s run his own business measuring buildings for 35 years. The fellow the Boston Globe called the “Glove Whisperer” and our beloved Tom Vartabedian of...

I’m licking the salt off my stubbled seventeen-year-old mustache in a crowded van. Yerevan passes. Concrete and dust. A flash of Sevan (so blue it looks fake). The Genocide Memorial. Dalma Mall. I get off, fan the sweat off my...