• If there is one thing you will most certainly hear about me it is that I have a lot of patience. Ask anyone and they will tell you how good I am and how patiently I have explained things. What they don’t know is the amount of tables I have turned, and the amount of…

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  • Comfortably Numb

    Comfortably Numb

    It begins with a glorious dream. Untainted by truth, undaunted by reality…pure, innocent, attainable. A chip comes off when you begin the journey and realize its harder than it seemed.

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  • What does it mean to be successful?

    We measure success either in numbers because our brain understands quantity more easily than abstract emotions or in terms of the next thing we are going to pursue. It is always a forward movement that gets associated with success.

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  • Three old women

    Anjali sat on one of the chairs, shaking with age. She kept her cane to one side and looked at her watch. As the minute hand crossed 12, two more women, as old, perhaps older – no one really knew because no one was keeping count – sat on the remaining chairs, kept in readiness…

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  • The blank page

    The blank page

    It was the time of night when the heat finally dissipated into the air above and the dying embers slowly turned to a cool breeze that sent shivers up the foot that had the misfortune of straying out of that cozy blanket.

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  • Rediscovering Reading #MondayMusings

    For someone whose livelihood depends on reading, I read few books in 2018 – so few that I had a meltdown and immediately decided to make a shorter TBR list from my never-ending pile of TBR to help focus the reading in 2019. All was going well. I spent a wonderful December picking and choosing…

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  • I fixed it

    “Christmas tree, my Christmas tree…” “Sonny, what are you doing?” asked Mother seeing the boy perched on a stool, taping the broken glass. “Who did that? Are you hurt?” “Don’t worry mommy. Billy was trying to get in. But I fixed it.”

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