Most mornings as I have my pot of tea simmering on the stove, I have my laptop up on my kitchen island and bring up Google Reader to catch up on all those night owls who have been posting while I have been gloriously asleep. As I skim through the new entries and mark some […]
To read is to empower
To empower is to write
To write is to influence
To Influence is to change
To change is to live.
~ Jane Evershed ~
More than a Tea Party
I love to read. I also love to write. Who does not like to influence? I am all for living! To that end, I would like to kick-start […]
Dictionary.com defines inexorable as unbending; severe, relentless, unrelenting, implacable, merciless, cruel, pitiless.
Around where I live there are plenty of steep winding country roads. Much like roller coasters. One such road is the one connecting my home with my brother’s. Each time we drive back home there is this stretch where there is the feeling of […]
This word has fascinated me many times. I heard it used by many people. I never quite got what it meant. Till yesterday. I had an epiphany. It feels good saying that.
I have to go back a bit to explain what I feel. Over the years there have been many things I have craved, coveted […]
Waiting for a friend in the lobby of her office, I picked up a worn out copy of Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Turning over the pages vacantly, I read a few of the contributions and found myself nodding my head in agreement or going “My parents would have done the exact same thing! […]
I cannot deal with silence.
Whether it is my mom sitting mulling something in the back seat of our car or K going about his marathon vegetable cutting exercise lost in his thoughts, I need to know what is going on in there.
“What are you thinking?” I ask. Sometimes the answer would be “Nothing.” Sometimes I […]
Before you even gush and say “Aww, how sweet!”, let me clarify my statement. I miss him for sure, just not in the way I would miss my mom when she goes back or the way I would miss K if he were to go away for a week.
So, why this public declaration of affection?
Because […]
Yesterday late afternoon I received an email from my friend saying I was IT. Yes. Another tag. Except this one caught my fancy even before I read through it completely. All it asked was to describe my friend in a single word. This was tricky. How do I sum up someone I had known for […]
To be so involved in reading that I lose track of time. To emerge from a trance like state when K has been calling out to me for what seems ages. To look at the clock and gasp like it could not be true. To get so involved that I feel like I am living […]
