Valentine’s Day is around the corner and wherever we turn we see pink hearts, red hearts, roses, jewelry and the list goes on.
The Rose Float—A Tribute to Armenian Woman
I have been envious of some of my friends who, for the last four years, have decorated the Armenian float for Pasadena’s Rose Parade
A Pilgrimage to Our Ancestral Land
The morning we were going to start our trip, I woke up to a phone call.
Hidden Armenians Coming out of the Shadows
On a recent road-trip to eastern Turkey, where once the land belonged to Armenians, we visited Diyarbakir, one of the largest cities in the region with a population of close to one million.
Only in Yerevan
On the last day of the Golden Apricot Film Festival, the buzz was to see the controversial and Avant-garde Swedish movie, “The Square,” that had won the top film prize of Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Come travel with Me to Marseille.
My flight landed in Marseille at 10:30 in the morning. I was coming from Yerevan via a two-hour overlay in Athens.
Visiting Van and Mush in Historical Armenia
On the seventh day of our pilgrimage in Western Armenia, we stayed overnight in Mush, where archeological excavations have revealed cuneiform inscriptions from the time of Menua, (c. 800 BC)
A Weekend in Yerevan
Come along. I’d like to take you with me to a few places I visited over the weekend to give you a feel for how simple and enjoyable life is in Armenia.
A Page From My Journal In Western Armenia
I met Aragats Akhoyan during our road trip in Turkey. He was with a big group dinning at the same restaurant in Moush as our group was.
A Substitute Grandma at an Armenian ‘Handess’
I received a text from my best friend—she wanted to know if I could attend her granddaughter’s (or “tornik’s” in Armenian) year end recital in place of her because she had to be at her work.