Monthly Archives: April 2009

In 1989, Lucy Samara of Burlington and Gail Anderson of Charlotte were spending way too much time standing outside of supermarkets on Saturday mornings asking people to give their empty Coke and Pepsi cans to COTS (the Committee on Temporary … Continue reading →

When I gaze out my father’s living room window in South Florida, I am looking at a golf course fairway and a tree, now about fifteen feet tall, that was planted by friends of my mother after she died. Usually … Continue reading →

By the time you’re reading this, the Easter Bunny will have finished work for the night. The carrots we left out for the rascally rabbit will have been consumed and the baskets distributed. Last week I asked some folks what … Continue reading →

Politicians who say stupid things (OK, that’s redundant) could learn a lot from Southern women. Specifically, they could learn that you can say absolutely anything you want about anybody, as long as you end the sentence with “bless his heart.” … Continue reading →

ARMENIAN GOLGOTHABy Grigoris BalakianTranslated by Peter Balakian with Aris SevagKnopf. 509 pp. $35 Reviewed by Chris Bohjalian Last month, while I was visiting my father in Florida, we had dinner one night with my aunt. We were discussing the way … Continue reading →