For several years now I have been spending the summer in Chicago by Lake Michigan. Chicago is where our daughters’ families have settled down and are raising their children who are our grandchildren. So, I guess I am not a spring chicken as some might say. But I go for a jog for about an hour most every evening by the lake along the Lake Shore Drive starting at the Navy Pier. The area near the Navy Pier is generally crowded with millions of tourists, so it seems, speaking in languages that I have no clue about. The water fountains where the little kids gather. They have heavenly fun getting wet and jumping in out of the fountain water going on and off randomly. The young parents either watch the children from the perimeter as they may be too grown up to have such childish fun or ensure that the…
During my college days in 1980-81, when I first read Samaresh Majumdar’s ‘Uttoradhikar’ (the first book of Animesh series – Uttoradhikar, Kalbela, Kalpurush and…
I finally have my own contracting outfit, Elite Edge Electrical. I’m doing well. I specialize in strip malls. I labor up and down the…
I am not a medical doctor. However, my observation has led me to believe that most of our miseries come from failing to take…
The fly had been living in my keyhole for a long, long time. So long that I had gone through annoyance, despair and finally…
Sometimes you just have to hit things. In Carla’s case that meant the rubber-sheathed steering wheel she was holding. Uselessly she’d already shot the…
‘You must feel so empty now,’ they whispered, knowing eyes filled with crocodile tears, faces twisted into grimaces as we stood over his grave.…
Publisher: Abington House Pages: 224 Lohit Datta-Barua was born in Assam, northeast India, in the late 1940s. Both he and Assam have complicated histories…
Growing up, Emma’s world was confined to her neighborhood, a ten block area 30 miles northwest of the city center. The neighborhood had everything:…
Purnima felt she was truly a child of the moon, deeply connected to the many lovely phases and silvery-golden hues of the beauty above. …
