Steve’s passing away has a spawned a generation of gleeful followers overnight. “Follow your heart” has assumed a cult status and is threatening to stop the Earth from turning. Every direction I crane my neck into, I see hordes of…
Category: Such is Life
The Icy Hands
“There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings” - James Shirley Recently, one of my readers who often leaves precious footprints on my desolate blogs, remarked how an image posted by me invoked both…
Silence of the Speech
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” -Anonymous Every day, en route to office, I pass by a large display panel beaming the day’s quote. Having digested the daily offering for a month or so, it struck me…
pain
The morning is pearly gray. I see the rain falling in symmetrical lines every time I look out. I don't go to work. I tell someone I want to be on a beach watching the sea. Naturally, there are many…
A Bad Post, but wait!
I am sorry, folks. I give up. I am tired of pretending. And it is in best interests of all involved to get it straight: I am neither John Updike nor Steve McCurry. The declaration takes megatons of load off…
The Joke is on Me!
The lady in the house has imposed a curfew on splurging. “No Dream Home, no Cream Machines!” She says. And the law is wrought in iron. You all know how wide open to interpretation a dream home is. It may…
Fra Lippo Lippi
Yesternight, I was caught red-handed, drooling over the Nikon photographic lens section of the B&H Photo Video online store by the Moral Police...
While I be the Banker
Towards the end of March, during what is known as ‘the annual financial closing’, the accidental banker in me braces for the approaching storm with clinched fists and gritted teeth. It’s payback time for the mounds of litter left around…
One Grain Amongst the Storm 