Here’s to issues worth discussing.
“The motherland should be best loved from afar,” a man said to me the other day, “or else it will sting you.”
This man, whose first name I never received, came to Los Angeles in the early 90s from Armenia, and after several years of living in Hollywood, where the palm trees sway in the breeze and at least a handful of ethnic groups can be found in just a few blocks, he made up his mind to go back.
He only lasted one year.