July 11, 2010

Crimes of the NY Times

The reference librarian's answer was brief and to the point "There is no record of it. It never happened. Your father lied."My father had the misfortune to be born in June 1917 in the southern Ukraine. He spent the first thirty years of his...

May 3, 2010

On Becoming an Un-Hyphenated American

The knock on the door sounded official.  It was the United States Census. "Do you live here? What is your name?"As I said it, a gleam came into his eye. "Are you a Ukrainian-American?" he asked.It wasn't always like this. Whe...