A Slice of Life

I have heard people say, “You are such a brave person! So confident, so sure of yourself.” Am I? I wonder. I often…

A well-placed elbow into the rib of the person next to her helped Asha get a foothold onto the bus. Well, it also…

“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…