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Apr.21.2013
The other day we had some massive trees cut down in our yard and the fellow taking them down wanted to be sure that he didn’t accidentally incinerate the center of Lincoln by dropping a six-story maple on the lamppost at the edge of our driveway and causing an electrical fire. That would have put a...
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Apr.21.2013
The other day we had some massive trees cut down in our yard and the fellow taking them down wanted to be sure that he didn’t accidentally incinerate the center of Lincoln by dropping a six-story maple on the lamppost at the edge of our driveway and causing an electrical fire. That would have put a...
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Apr.14.2013
IN THE coming days, Armenians around the world will come together to acknowledge what I have come to call “The Slaughter You Know Next to Nothing About.” April 24 marks the 98th anniversary of the night the Armenian religious and intellectual leaders were rounded up in Constantinople — and the...
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Apr.05.2013
Rock-and-roll t-shirts? Check.
T-shirt cannon? Check.
Old family photos? Check.
Nine days from today it begins: "The Sandcastle Girls" Lucky '13 Paperback Book Tour. 13 stops in 13 days in 2013. Please join me!
April 14Fresno, CaliforniaCollege State University, FresnoArmenian Studies...
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Mar.23.2013
We are now on the cusp of an M2M world – M2M being the techie shorthand for machine-to-machine, not a typo for candies that melt in your mouth, not in your hand. And while I will always be more interested in a world that revolves around chocolate than I am in a world that spins around computers, I...
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Mar.05.2013
Mark your calendars -- and please join me!
April 14Fresno, CaliforniaFresno State CollegeArmenian Studies DepartmentLeon and Pete Peters Educational Center Auditorium(In student rec center, corner of Shaw and Woodrow Avenues)5241 N. Maple Avenue2:00 p.m.Questions? (559) 224-5878
April 15Vernon...
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Feb.24.2013
A couple of weeks ago, I had one of the single most rewarding days of my life: More satisfying than even when I decided there was just no point in ever again frying a grilled cheese sandwich in anything but butter.
Here’s what I did: I brought 58 cans of paint from the dirt floor in my basement...
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Feb.10.2013
Valentine’s Day is coming, that day in February when we are supposed to buy or wear stripper lingerie to remember the life of a third-century Roman saint who died on the Via Flaminia. In truth, not all couples celebrate with thongs or chocolate or chocolate thongs.
As a public service, a few weeks...
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Jan.27.2013
There are a lot of reasons why I respect my 19-year-old daughter’s moral compass and one of them is her years at the United Church of Lincoln Sunday School here in Lincoln, Vermont. It was that hour she spent after church week after week over the course of a decade with such teachers as Lorraine...
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Aug.12.2012
Last Saturday night I returned home to Lincoln after a three-week book tour, and I learned something important: Never take the Burlington International Airport and everyone who works there for granted, even if the airport sometimes feels like a parking garage in search of a Cinnabon.
Make no...
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