To all parents out there in general, to my Mom in particular
Everyday is blessed. Everyday is buried up to the tip of my nose with chores, I can barely breathe. But everyday is a joy, the joy of living life to the fullest, all thanks to my kids. The greatest change that has happened to me after having a kid of my own is I started […]
Notes from my rear-view mirror
Paradise in those days of bruised scabby knees and wild hair was set in red laterite country. It had grandmothers who moved around in an ether of Ayurvedic oils handing out admonitions and sweat-meats with equal ease. The main citizens of this nation were a mob of tanned and rowdy cousins who would crawl out […]
Fallen Idol
A plaster of paris idol(severed head part) of Ganapati or Ganesha, the Hindu God of new beginnings and eliminator of obstacles. (I had written another entry about My Maps feature in Google Map and made a custom map of Anchorage with videos and photos, but the video feature of My Maps is screwed up as […]
Favorite Poet, once upon a time
In my opinion (oh, don’t I have some! And it is not even ‘humble’) the only readers of poetry are wannabe poets and desperate lovers sniffing around to make off with a verse or two. The poetry public likes has already been made or is being made in to rock ballads and pop songs without […]
Seasons at Westchester
Westchester Lagoon, May 22, 2005 Seasons at Westchester Lagoon Blue waters frame the pale mirth of yet another season. Spring startles the frost on the sidewalks in to a burst of green, where we had walked in the winter of yesterday, with much certainty, ducks glide by, cruising on invisible currents. we sit on the […]
The Risk Taker’s Wife
This was an entry for contest #8 at The Zero Boss: Blogging for Books. The subject was “RISK – about a time when you took a risk in your life on someone or something – a new romance, a new career, a new home, etc. Were you successful beyond your wildest dreams – or did […]
A Trip of a Childhood
I have revamped an old post of mine for this month’s Blogging for Books #12 contest. Of the three topics in the list, I’ve chosen to write about – A memorable trip or “mini-vacation” (with “memorable” covering everything from “best time of my life” to “unmitigated disaster”) Note: The journeys mentioned in this post took […]
Homer – the story of a Greek who became an American
Homer is not Greek anymore, this time around he asked Zeus to turn him into a place, a small fishing hamlet in South Central Alaska to be exact. He was tired of being a Greek man, it involved too much talking and all that feta cheese was getting on his nerves, it was time to […]
Americana in Seldovia
Seldovia is a small hamlet at the tip of Kenia peninsula in Alaska. No roads lead to Seldovia, it can be accessed only by small planes or boats. About 306 friendly people(so says the tourist pamphlet) live in Seldovia. They hide themselves pretty well, we hardly saw a dozen. An ideal idyllic place if you […]
Twenty Mile Travelogue
This weekend, two roads diverged in the woods and in true Frostian fashion we took the one less traveled by. That my friends, have made all the difference. Our almost neat apartment looks disbelievingly disheveled. Last night we had to excavate our bed from under a Vesuvian pile of laundry that had erupted over the […]
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