We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?