03.15.2016 Columns Gazarian Column: The pleasures of springtime in Orient Spring, spring, spring, where have you been? Our dear North Fork is dressing up for you, waking from silent winter to hear your voices. Gardens are shrugging off the...
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...
10.05.2015 Columns Gazarian Column: Oh, to be home in Orient once more I am many miles away from my house in Orient. It’s a beautiful end-of-September day. Shouldn’t I be pulling up in my driveway? The sound of the tires hitting...
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 Garzarian 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...
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...
01.18.2015 Community Gazarian Column: With a new year, wishing for warmth Here comes January 2015. Seventeen degrees outside. Wind chill 12. Cold weather never bothered me much. But today it does. I’d rather stay inside, not move very much, become...
