02.15.2016 Columns Gazarian Column: A fond remembrance of a big brother When I arrived on this good earth, my father, mother and grandmother welcomed me with their love and joy. And they had a very precious gift for me at...
11.15.2015 Columns Gazarian Column: Ready, set, hibernate Umbrellas. By itself it sounds like a somewhat strange word. But it “feels rainy” today under an uncertain sky, with clouds running away as if looking for shelter. A...
07.05.2015 Columns Gazarian Column: Regardless of dust, one must press on I am a lucky guy: I have three vacuum cleaners. It took years for this achievement. A story of hope. Each machine promised a dust-free life. Just let the...
06.08.2015 Columns Gazarian Column: Slowing down, but not for a yard sale I’m not a dog. Just in case some of you might have thought … As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t want to come back as a dog. To...
05.11.2015 Columns Gazarian Column: He’s taken a shine to polishing’s pleasures We, noble species, dreamers of cathedrals, little Mozarts, Shakespearean scholars, yes, but we do spend a precious part of our lives, not at the piano with little Mozart, but...
04.05.2015 Community Gazarian Column: It takes a village to make a true home Kara, who runs Hands Fuel in Orient along with her husband, Jeff, had called me in New York to report a problem. Two months after their previous oil delivery...
03.08.2015 Community Gazarian Column: Shifting affections from cars to canines “In the middle of this red-hot summer, my neighbor’s lawn was cool green. Mine was the Sahara desert, except for the presence of 1,001 dandelions and the absence of...
02.08.2015 Community Gazarian Column: ‘We shop, therefore we are’ “I think, therefore I am.” French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) said so. In 2015 no doubt he’d have to say, “I shop, therefore I am.” What’s life without shopping...