When a brand betrays: My VW Heartbreak

What would Speed Racer do?

What I Learned From Two Shirtless Thai Boys

Last June, I took a 5-day trip to Thailand.

Trek To Kudremukh : Bangalore Mountaineering Club

A Walk To Remember :

It’s not everyday that you find yourself in the middle of a National Park. Kudremukh, once an iron ore mining town, is a hidden gem in the Chikmagalur district of Karnataka. The region…

This Summer. This Year.

(or what’s been going on … more than writing.)

How Maribetta showed me light!!!

I realized the fact that the villages are beautiful throughout the country.. Be it at a remote village in Karnataka named Maribetta :

Gathering Dinner

Wandering in from the garden, one hand holds snips and the other a heavily-laden pouch — the bottom of my tee shirt gathered up…

Pope Francis in the Psychological Mix

I am trying not to watch Pope Francis during his trip to the New World. I did catch him in passing, waving to the crowd on arriving in Washington DC and stepping into a modest Fiat SUV. This was the cue for television correspondents to rave about the Pope’s dress…

Then I Entered the Twilight Zone

The dream haunted me for years when I was a girl, circling around with other recurring nightly…

Blood

As I walk down seventh, several things happen. I watch a truck drive by with a photo of a decapitated fetus plastered on the back — “America!” the…

A Man and his Deer

My next door neighbor Bob keeps an eight-point buck in his back yard, carefully shifting the animal’s location as time, season and weather warrant. What I see through my budding arborvitae are acts of a caring man practicing husbandry rather than a property owner intent on raising the value of…