A Slice of Life

“The nature of life is not permanence but flux,” says Mr. Carson in one of the episodes in Downton Abbey, and coming from…

Way back in school, I had a teacher who broke our knuckles if we didn’t get our sewing right. I grew up with…

As a Gen Xer, I thought my life was sorted until on a whim I joined two groups of fellow book lovers on…

  “I am tired of the bad press!  Drinking black coffee makes you a psychopath!” The coffee lamented. “Well, caffeine is definitely not something…

I burst into laughter remembering my  uncle’s comments a few days before his end.  “ Hey,” he said,  “I am a holy (…

It was in late eighties. My father was looking out for a suitable alliance for the twenty-three-old me who was also a closet…

Hey, you goose! You have done it again, haven’t you? Landed with your foot in the mouth! Woman, you have honed this talent…

When I came across a news item about a school requesting parents not to send lunch ordered via delivery apps, I was transported to my…

My friends and I were in our revolting tweens and snickered at a woman who regularly spoke and gestured to herself in shop…