It is all about me
In a taxi in Dubai, the driver, a balding bespectacled middle aged man turned to the girls sitting in the back and asked them if they loved India. His English was very broken ...
3 Years Ago
Smoke
When I first met my husband I told him the color of his eyes reminded me of ponds in Bengal, green, blue, grey. On train rides and car rides through the Bengal countryside I h...
3 Years Ago
Nothing
I was a tall, clumsy girl who fell over her legs in soccer and dislocated her elbow, who broke almost every finger in volleyball, who spoke in a stammer and a lisp, the latter...
3 Years Ago
Joey
My dog Joey is like a big black furry rug. He sits with me outside the house in a patch of sun. He lifts his face often to the sky. I suspect he is taking in the lay of the la...
3 Years Ago
Uphold but What?
The sun came out today for a bit today. Really brilliant and white in a blue clear sky. I went for an impromptu walk in the middle of the day, pulled to the sound of the ocea...
3 Years Ago
Kaeru
It is early in the morning, our first week in the village as residents.
There is a Japanese word for going homeward. ...
3 Years Ago