As I read Amit Varma’s post on August 22 about the need to get away from society and its craziness in order to find the time and peace to collect one’s thoughts, I was struck by the question at the end of the post: What is there to be said that hasn’t been said...
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Do you know what it feels like to be the last one in school? To be standing at the gate, watching all your friends leave one by one — some by cycle, some in a rickshaw, some into the outstretched arms of their parent … You stand there thinking about them pedaling home, catching...
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It’s time to remove my thinking cap and put on my writing hat. I’m not really a hat person, though — I’ve skeptically tried on hats at various Gap and Target stores usually on excursions with mom (when she visits) or friends. They shop and I wait around, glancing at my iPhone every 45...
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So, Duane Scott featured my Pleasantly Disturbed Thursday post from last week on his blog today. What an honor to be told by the master of disturbed writing that my piece was a gem. But what does that mean for my blog today? I worry about what to write each of the other days...
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Congratulations to Vidhya Narayanan for being selected Photoblogger of the Month! An engineer at IBM, Narayanan was going through the motions but her heart was not in the bits and bytes of it. “Looking at photography in the National Geographic, admiring Steve McCurry’s work (who shot the famous picture of the “Afghan Girl”), and playing...
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I have to thank Duane Scott for allowing me to present the uninhibited workings of my mind on Pleasantly Disturbed Thursdays. Especially when my brain feels like a heated wok. Sitting on the stove top in utter disdain. It’s not ready to make scrambled eggs. It wants to somehow deflect that dump of information that...
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I apologize for being MIA the last week. Attending a professional conference in the Midwest with a so-weak-that-it-was-practically-nonexistent wifi connection limited my ability to update this blog initially. But when I got back to a high-speed-internet-driven home, things only got worse. Jetlag coupled with inextensible deadlines and days chock-full of meetings didn’t help. Although...
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Just when I had thought I wouldn’t do anything “structured” on my blog, pop comes Duane Scott’s Pleasantly Disturbed series. He’s been doing it for five weeks now and I have been watching from the sidelines, marveling at his ability to write about everything and nothing. It’s a rant unlike rants. He makes it...
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Many of you have asked me why I chose the name “First Impressions” for this blog. I was considering “My Spot in the Sun” because this space would focus on my thoughts; “Rambling Thoughts of a Restless Mind” because some times that’s what I end up writing about — and y’all know how restless...
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Congratulations to Diane Varner for being selected Photoblogger of the Month! Diane’s blog “Daily Walks” invites people to experience the magic of the Northern California coastline and forests. She is adept at capturing the essence of life through her lens — dewdrops on flowers, sunlight streaming through the fog, a fallen maple leaf…she is...
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