Roots and Wings – Mother’s Day Musings

Roots and Wings – Mother’s Day Musings

Sharing the very first essay that I felt brave enough to send out for publication. It appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in California in September 2002. The baby referred to in this essay is now getting ready to fly the nest. Perhaps it’s time for an...
Autumn Light by Pico Iyer

Autumn Light by Pico Iyer

My last book of 2019 was a book about autumn by Pico Iyer, a genre-defying book by a well-known author. I heard Iyer speak at the Singapore Writer’s Festival in November 2019 and I was suitably impressed; by his words and his impeccable English accent, which still...