Prose

I already wrote why most of my reading is done on Kindle, and why it plays a crucial role in sustaining this blog. However, most of my active reading is done on a printed page because it offers a unique opportunity to have a tangible back and forth with the author as I immerse myself … Read more

Writing is living! We, as writers, experience everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which reflects our life back to us and those who read our work. But with advancing technology, pen and paper — the most visceral means by which we leave track of our existence — slowly becomes obsolete. This … Read more

Reader, you may call what you see here my blog, but the truth is that what I create here is not a blog, not exactly. It’s rather my ruminations and conversations, which are lively, kindly even in their silliness, and which are built always upon the bedrock of my devotion to the written word as … Read more

Books being the original internet, I’ve followed an analog hyperlink from Ray Bradbury’s lovely Zen writing manifesto to discover another treasure trove of wisdom — Dorothea Brande’s (1893–1948) altogether indispensable “Becoming a Writer.” I’ve ravenously devoured all of it and want to share one fragment that seems to me of profound importance, for it not … Read more