These are my finest stories. They’ve been accumulating over my lifetime and are finally written down and published. You’ll meet Nazar, my ever friendly, advice-giving Navy dad, Charlene my 3rd grade crush—and how about breakfast with Claude Monet? You’ll meet Buster, an old healing dog, Connie a lost love when I was young, Vini the Tattooed man at a funeral, and how to look skinny—ideas used for centuries. And you’ll like a New Orleans oddity named Phillip Dugas who never ages. A few of these stories were written during The Great Quarantine and are the signposts in my life, of times current and bygone, of laughter and grief. You’ll learn things. You, yourself will become a better storyteller.

Chuck "Garbo" Hajinian is also a Trustee of the Armenian Museum of America.