Work, Wonder, and Windows

Work, Wonder, and Windows

Welcome to my blog. First time here? Check out May’s blog for info on my intentions for this space. Work: Last October while reading Judith Kitchen’s The Circus Train, a novella-length essay in fragments about, to name a few, mortality, Samuel Beckett, and memory, I...
Work, Wonder, and Windows

Work, Wonder, and Windows

June 2023 Welcome to my blog. First time here? Check out last month’s blog for info on my intentions for this space. Work: I’ve started on the next draft of my book, my untitled Armenian family memoir. The last draft I refused to begin with page one—I was sick of page...
Work, Wonder, and Windows

Work, Wonder, and Windows

May 2023 One of my motivations to write is connecting with others, and that connection can’t begin until the work goes out into the world. As I am currently writing a book, it’s a long slog before that engagement can begin. So I’ve decided to reboot, revive, and...
GERANIUMS

GERANIUMS

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. In honor of my ancestors, I’m grateful to have this short piece up at Complete Sentence.

LOOK WITH YOUR EYES

Look with your eyes, not your hands My mother said in gift shops, antique stores, the five and dime   Now, in my mask and gloves, I peer at Avocados and apples, grapefruit and lemons   Using my eyes to discern Firmness, ripeness, compatibility  ...