WRITING HAS MORE TO DO WITH MATH than luck, talent or training. It’s simple statistics: discipline and exercise make a writer. This MAY be more naïve hope than natural law, for I started writing with…
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the world can handle it
I will come back to this blog; I’ve just been planning a wedding for the last 6 months (and abroad for 2.5 of those) – so please just forgive me. In the meantime, I do…
to wake up wondering
Oh. Creaky, rusty fingers. Of which I would prefer to point at the Himalayan monsoons in blame. But really, we all know, the real culprit is disuse. Blog content comes to me like the first…
a spice story board
My boyfriend built me a spice rack this weekend. Not just your standard turntable or ledge, but a triple-deck vertical tower on tracks that slide cooking arsenal right into the casual reach of your left…
i’d rather walk…
This is the third time this week that I’ve sat down to write, and then decided. I’d just rather walk. Every spiritual guide and clairvoyant I’ve ever encountered has told me this: you live too…
the echo from my bathroom in kathmandu
Coming into our shared guestroom with my ears still ringing from the blaring horns and yelling hawkers of busy Kathmandu streets, it echos from the bathroom…. Arms full of groceries, closing the front door of…
marbled black lab
We check each other out. Her cream and mint salwar-kameez is conservatively muted with fine emblem work that I have never seen in the popular clothing stores that I frequent in India. I’m wearing a…
where it’s gone
I miss my writing too. But in the way that I miss and love my mom. Feeling grounded by the fact that she’s there. Yet not needing to live in a bedroom in her house….