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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,…
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G is for Goose-bumpy After yesterday’s post about Fury, I had started writing about another emotion with a story I desperately wanted to share about my friendly neighborhood grouch. Then this afternoon I came across this almost made up sounding word. So grouch has been saved for another day. This hyphenated (or not) word emphasizes…
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F is for Furious Fury has its place in the workings of the world. Sometimes, in fact it is the main catalyst which gets things moving. The Trojan war. OK, bad example, but you know what I mean. Several times the adrenaline rush stemming from a deep feeling of fury has pushed me onto to…
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E: It’s a fundamental truth. The wandering mind gathers no real thought. Through idyllic fog that ran amuck in his brain, he searched for proof of banal existentialism. None. Tedium wrung its way through each fiber of his muscle. Teenage is such a rickety old bridge. There seems to be no end on either side,…
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D is for Delight The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov In the finding out. Does true delight lie in the journey rather than in the destination? This perhaps borders on philosophy but does delight lie in the process of reaching rather than being there? I…