It was quite a ritual in my younger years. The preparation for an exam or test began in earnest weeks ahead. There was systematic planning of subject coverage right until the last day. On the last day itself, besides the academic hustle, my family would get involved. Best wishes would be conferred and Mom would[…]
Whatever A word I have historically despised because it offers an easy way out of an argument. But if you take it out of that context, I feel this word is making a slight comeback. I am certainly not an analyst but when things go downhill or stay unusually stagnant, there usually are three phases.[…]
Oh thy artist, I have nothing on youIf you be the God, then I am the lonely wooden pew. You sing, with open or closed eyesWords that create images and melodies those pry Intensely, in my lack luster heart, you create firesYour voice, deep or shrill, waters my eyes With your noticeably long purposeful fingers,[…]
Motorcycle Zen involves scraping foot pegs when you turn The first time I rode a motorcycle was when I pulled out my new bike out of the dealership. My parents assumed that I knew how to ride. I assumed the same. Having driven a car before, I knew that clutch was my friend. I managed[…]
Cast off! Oh my dear, wonderful and my only right hand, welcome back! It doesn’t matter that you seem terribly sore. Or that your skin seems scaly and left for dead. We both agree that the cast wasn’t entirely nice to you. Slowly, as the soreness fades, I will have you back doing things that[…]
I wanted to say a lot. But I choked because it did not make the slightest sense. So instead, I screamed my apologies at you. And now they echo.
Tunnel vision I admit that these are uncharted waters for me. Three years into a relationship and we are still together. Admittedly, we are slowing down. If it wasn’t for tonight, I would have trouble remembering the last we had some excitement. I rarely push you into corners with reckless abandon. I rev you hard[…]
David and Jennifer were having problems. I don’t want to plunge into details here. Let’s just say David left mid conversation. It wasn’t the right way to leave. Either he had stopped making sense or Jen was making too much of it. So he traversed his way down the stairs. Scurried through the underground parking[…]
Why did she brush my knee under the table with her hand? Her batting eyelids were distinct even on a dark lit terrace. In that crisp Indian November air; my heart went from frigid to a frantic beating in no time. Even now, I have not understood why she did what she did with a[…]
Like most other great adventures, it was essentially planned out in 15 minutes. A car would be driven, beginning in grey wintery cold Ann Arbor. It would travel great distances to the east and south where it was decidedly warmer and perhaps much nicer. There was of course a vague idea of how large of[…]