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I can’t believe it is almost August… less than a couple of days now… Right now, we are in the thick of summer, surrounded by the most delicious local fruit: watermelon, cantaloupe, and peaches…peaches…peaches! The strawberries have come and gone and we enjoyed every last one… I love this time of year! I love the…

Many were disappointed. Incredibly disappointed. We all listened with great anticipation… will he do it? Will he hold true to his promise? But, the President did not use the word Genocide in his speech on April 24th, 2009 to refer to the horrific massacres and mass deportation that Armenians suffered in 1915… Honestly, I wasn’t…

I am remembering being in elementary school, I think it was Grade 2, and coming home perplexed by an assignment we had to do. My teacher had asked us to make a family tree and to go as far back in our family’s history as we could go… my friends got all excited about this…

I keep looking at the photo I posted of my Grandmother in yesterday’s blog. I am trying to remember how old she is in that photo… maybe 16 or 17? My aunt would know, and I need to call her and ask. I know that this photo is the only one we have of Grandma…

It is almost April 24th. April 24th, 1915 marks the official “beginning” of the Armenian Genocide…the Genocide when 1.5 million Armenians were brutally massacred. Every year, at this time, Armenians all over the world remember the Armenian Genocide. And every year at this time, we wait with bated breath to see if governments around the…