I am hoping to visit Swansea this summer, my first time in the land of Wales — Patron Saint, David; Emblem, The Leek; Flag, a fierce Red Dragon. Why, beside the dragon and the leek, would I want to make … Continue reading
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My mother used the phrase “starving Armenians” as an all-purpose signifier of people who were miserable and suffering. She was born in 1915, the year of the first major-league genocide of the 20th Century and had clearly imbibed the phrase … Continue reading