Category Archives: musings

If I was given an assignment in school, I would ensure That I did a bit extra, I wanted to secure For myself, a respectable position among my peers And that tendency did not with time disappear There were people who always sailed through By doing the bare minimum they were expected to do ToContinue reading “Bare Minimum”

Gardening as a hobby exciting appears Except that I have a strong (not unfounded) fear Of killing all plants left under my care I don’t have a green thumb, and even the most hardy plant is not spared Either I forget to water them or flood them inadvertently The growth expected from a plant IContinue reading “No Green Thumb”

As someone who prefers solitude I confess that I have never viewed Clubs of any kind as suitable for me I’d hardly joined any clubs until recently When I found it difficult to decline Participation in a book club- with books and wine If seemed like an interesting way to spend An evening with like-mindedContinue reading “Book Club”

A self-imposed challenge that I face Is to find in my schedule enough space To read the various forms of writing I want to Medical journals, books, news articles, to name a few Somehow I find time to read novels despite their length But at the end of a workday I cannot muster will powerContinue reading “Everything I must Read”

Social isolation is a malady of the twenty-first century But as I just found out, it has created a trillion dollar industry * The loneliness economy is growing by leaps and bounds The purveyors of capitalism have found That lonely people have higher screen-time usage They retain subscriptions, with emotionally charged content engage Their lonelinessContinue reading “The Loneliness Economy”

One of my yardsticks in evaluating a good day Is whether the book I’ve been reading has been impactful in some way * I read to escape into a world different from the one in which I reside When I start reading a book, I gear up for a roller-coaster ride Sometimes the ride isContinue reading “A good book, a good day”

Almost every time I sit down to write I hear my inner voice gearing for a fight You are not a writer- it reminds me again Sometimes its admonition goes in vain And I write effortlessly, but sometimes the voice is loud And my writing comes under a cloud Of self-doubt, writer’s block I getContinue reading “Inner Critic”

The memory of my phone is running out of space to store Photographs I have taken, and in order to keep taking more Old photographs I am forced to delete from my device I start by choosing duplicates and the ones that are not that nice But doing just that proves to not be enoughContinue reading “Memories in photographs”

I write about a range of subjects wide But what I want to write most about, I hide There are emotions trying to get organized Into words, to suppress them I have tried Because I am not mentally prepared For my innermost thoughts to be shared I skirt around my emotions, I try to findContinue reading “What I don’t write about..”

Each year incremental changes I see In my physical and mental capacity My reflexes are just a tad bit slow Compared to what they were a year ago I cannot sprint as fast as I used to do Climbing up and down uneven surfaces wears me down too Late night partying no longer desirable appearsContinue reading “Age is more than a Number”

I have traveled to places with high expectations in the past Only to realize the reality is different, quite fast After hours of travel and braving long lines The most famed sites lackluster I would find Inclement weather and jetlag would add fuel to fire And suddenly for travel I would lose all desire *Continue reading “Minimize Travel Expectations”

I know sleep is precious but I cannot resist Staying up late to read a book with an unexpected plot twist To put a book down just because it is past midnight Is something I cannot bring myself to do, even as I fight A battle between my mind that tells me to go toContinue reading “Read or Sleep?”