Misplaced Virtue
Faithful women are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and never of their husbands.
… Jean Giraudoux
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A Smile for You
Smiling is infectious; you catch it like the flu.
When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized I’d [...]

Next to wrestling alligators and walking a tightrope across Niagara Falls comes grocery shopping on my list of undesirables.
I do not like frequenting supermarkets for four valid reasons: I can never find what I’m looking for; end up buying calories I don’t need; cannot stand the obstacle courses before me; and find the price market [...]

It is a well-known fact that Turkish leaders are exceptional diplomats. However, as soon as they hear the words Armenian Genocide, Greece, Cyprus, or Kurdistan, these diplomats lose their “cool” and resort to emotional outbursts and undiplomatic actions that harm their own interests.
Realizing that this is the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Turkish officials [...]

As book talks and signings go, the Feb. 25 launching of Mitchel Kehetian’s Giants of the Earth assured the long-time newspaperman and editor his place in the literary sun.
(L-R) Edgar Hagopian, Mitch Kehetian, Rev. Fr. Diran Papazian, and David Terzibashian
Over 70 people gathered in the exquisite downtown Birmingham showroom of Hagopian World of Rugs to [...]

In this fourth of what started as a three-part series on LATimes coverage of interest to Armenians, let’s briefly visit Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran.
As you might guess, Iran gets lots of coverage, what with the whole “going nuclear” issue, the ongoing antipathy and tension between it and the U.S., its connections to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, its [...]

In this third of what started as a three-part series on LA Times coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Kurdish-topic patterns I’ve noticed over the past two-plus years.
Arguably, the Kurds have fared best among the peoples of Armenia’s neighbors. Certainly, they had more coverage (at least in terms of number of pieces) than [...]

Suzy Arakelian’s lovely eyes may have been dimmed by the passing years, but oh how they lit up when representatives of the Metro-Detroit area Armenian Relief Society (ARS) recently awarded the devoted octogenarian her 50-year service pin and certificate.
Says daughter Rosemarie Arakelian, “Mom was surprised and pleased when the ladies from the ARS came to [...]

It was bad enough that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had failed to keep their campaign pledge to reaffirm the facts of the Armenian Genocide. They sunk to a new low last week, when Clinton announced that she and the president opposed adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution by the full [...]

Sure sign of spring. The crocuses are peeking out over my turf. Or so it seems.
To be honest about it, I never knew what a crocus was until a reader called the paper one day in early March to inform me. I hightailed it out to her house and two little buds were sticking out [...]

From the Word Lab
Honorificabilitudinitatibus: A made–up word on the Lat. honorificabilitudo, honorableness, which frequently occurs in Elizabethan plays as an instance of sesquipedalian pomposity.
Ex. “thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus”
—Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, act V, scene i.
 
Anyone We Know?
I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps himself in the [...]