Nobody Cares About Your Dead Relatives

Nobody Cares About Your Dead Relatives

by | Mar 18, 2025 | Memoir, Writing

In the writing world the saying goes, nobody cares about your dead relatives. Or the living ones, for that matter. The fact that my Armenian grandmother was dear to me isn’t enough to endear her to readers. Saying my uncle gave me the best books for Christmas doesn’t...

March, A Month To Spring Forward, Still

by | Mar 27, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing

The harbingers of spring continue this month, with azaleas, daffodils, and forsythia in full bloom, and maples, alders, and dogwood trees beginning to bud out. We have a mallard couple visiting our pond and a blush of robins spreads over the front field bobbing for...