by Laura Rink | Sep 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
. . Belonging In 2020, I started researching the lives of my Armenian grandmother and her two sisters in Turkey where they lived before emigrating to the US. As I made connections with other Armenians, and Genocide and Ottoman scholars, one connection led to another...
by Laura Rink | Aug 29, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
In my Armenian family memoir, there’s a chapter titled “This Land is Whose Land.” Doing research, I’d contact other Armenians with questions and they’d write back referring to Armenia while I kept saying my family was from Turkey. As this persisted, I grew confused....
by Laura Rink | Aug 1, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy While I’ve written essays and I’m working on a family memoir about my paternal family, I’ve written almost nothing about my maternal family. How does one...
by Laura Rink | Jul 31, 2026 | Daily Life
Daylight Savings vs. Standard Time Most people agree we should stop the twice a year time changes. If you’ve read my prior blogs, you know I feel strongly about staying on standard time. Please read this important piece by Your Local Epidemiologist that shows...
by Laura Rink | Jun 30, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
If you were asked to write about your childhood, grounded in place and sensory detail, what would you write? On which aspects of your childhood would you focus? Which family idiosyncrasies would you describe? In 1993, George Ella Lyon published her poem, “Where...
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