About Joan McNerney Joan McNerney’s poetry has been published worldwide in over thirty-five countries in numerous literary magazines. She has received four Best of the Net nominations. The Muse in Miniature, Love Poems for Michael, and At Work are available on Amazon.com. A new title Light & Shadows has recently…Continue reading→
ISBF24: One Afternoon by Uma Majumdar
About Uma Majumdar I have just lived my life watching people and enjoying their capers. I’ve read a few pages which have given me intense happiness and made me think and rethink. Looking forward to more such days – when I shall lay back watching the worthy do their stuff….Continue reading→
ISBF24: Blank 120 by Debaleena Mukherjee
About Debaleena Mukerjee Debaleena is a homemaker who also reads and writes. Reading isn’t about “making time to read”. She reads wherever, whatever, whenever. Writing is her articulation of all the incoherence in her head. She lives in Bangalore. She needs books, coffee and cake, a reading-light and her recliner….Continue reading→
To See What There Is To See
The Grand Canyon, AZ, USA I travel to see what there is to see. To travel is a privilege for most. For some, it is a chore. For most, it is a pleasure. For me, travel is a privilege, a chore and a pleasure all at the same time. Also:…Continue reading→
Fruitful Work
Fruitful Work And so it came about that I, bored from lack of paying work, tired from a year of travelling, walking uphill, downhill, along streams, lakes, tiled streets, cobblestoned avenues, gazing where the daffodils were, probably, blowing in the spring, in places as diverse as The Eastern Townships, The…Continue reading→
Vespera – 1
It was afternoon and the sun headed into the west as the doors of the prison closed behind her, closing down the fourteen years of imprisonment, and moving it into history. Vespera stood there, uncertain, undecided which way to go, a lone figure of a lady who had once been…Continue reading→
Why I can’t buy jeans anymore
Why I can’t buy jeans anymore. Well, hello there! This here is the second post of 2024 and we’re here because I want to talk about Why I can’t buy jeans anymore. Eh? The first one? The first one was not about why I can’t buy jeans anymore. It was…Continue reading→
Punjabi in England – Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still This was my first ever trip to England in 2018. Not much has been written about my attraction to England. What there is can be read if you click this link. If you read it, Time Will Stand Still as the regular readers will attest. Suffice it…Continue reading→
No Yeast Bread
No Yeast Bread Yeast. It’s a thing that causes bread dough to rise. There are other things that can cause bread to rise, other than yeast. Like sourdough starters, which I have used and it was good! See here for more. But what if you have no yeast and no…Continue reading→
Cheese and Parsley Bread
Bread Bread is essential to life. Man can live by bread alone. Butter, jam, bacon, ham; all these are mere bonuses. Of course, we know that bacon makes the world go round. But then, some will say, the world has always been round. At which point I have to remind…Continue reading→