shirley | January 31, 2010
PLANTS HUMMINGBIRDS LOVE The following are plants that I have planted in my garden that the hummingbirds go wild over. You can plant a few of these and forget hummingbird feeders! I often sit in my chair and watch them, they even come up to me and flit around – I guess they’re wondering if [...]
shirley | January 28, 2010
Once I was at a dinner with my husband and his coworkers. I was seated next to a gentleman and we struck up a conversation. I can’t remember how the conversation was going, but we were talking about typical things in our lives, our childhood etc. For some reason he brought up how his mother [...]
shirley | January 25, 2010
In 1979 my mother, Azad, interviewed my grandmother regarding her experience in the 1915 deportations in Eastern Turkey. This is the interview translated from Ottoman Turkish by Hande Taylon: Helen: In 1915 they sent all of them as immigrants, they had to leave their homes and everything. Azad: What did they say? Helen: They said, “You [...]
