• New pub news!

    On the occasion of National Poetry Month 2026, poet Vidya Shankar and I bring to you, our book which has been almost two years in the making: Light and Line Drawings! This book is a dual-voice poetry collection exploring lives on completely different continents. Light and Line Drawings is a dialog between two poets who,…

  • Mostly Mamina. Blogging from A to Z…C

    C is for crawl. Or, one of the lessons my daughter taught me. When it was past 5 months and it looked as though crawling would be a long way coming for my daughter, I started worrying. And fretting. I got very nervous, and got into bouts of tears. It turned out all for naught.…

  • Mostly Mamina. Blogging from A to Z … B

    B is for Baby bump As I think back on the various transformations my body went through to make my baby, I struggled to remember the low points. A smile creeps through all my memories and refuses to vanish. Eclipsing all the sicknesses, the acidity attacks, the tendonitis in both my wrists, the breathlessness, the…

  • Mostly Mamina…Blogging from A to Z.

    A is for Anna The day my husband told me that in his native language the word for mother is mamina was the day I started yearning for a little voice calling me just that. Mamina. It was a rough ride going from being a couple to being parents but less than a year ago,…

  • A year rolls by

    Its been almost a year since I last posted. Embarrassing, but there it is. Life got in the way some and some part was filled by my own inability to compose sentences. Almost a year to this day, I was at my first book release party. Hopefully it wont be my last, though the pace…