Miep Gies died yesterday. She was 100 years old. Miep and her husband, Jan, are the Dutch couple who hid Anne Frank and her family for more than two years in an Amsterdam attic. When the Franks were discovered and sent to concentration camps, Miep found …
Archive for January, 2010
What a difference five years can make in a life. On 1-9-05 I was a single girl. I’d been single a long time. On this cold and unusually snowy Seattle Sunday, my first date with Big Papa was on the calendar. We’d arranged for me to pick him …
Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand! That’s ‘Merry Christmas’ in Armenian.
While the glow of the holiday season is fading in the U.S. and Christmas trees have been stripped of their glory and are heading to the curb, today is Christmas Day in Armenia. Armenian Christmas is celebrated January …
