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Continue reading →: Becoming Indian: Memories of Graduate Student Life in the USIt was all there. The little bits and pieces of India that had managed to pass through strict inspection. For some of us, it was in the form of three or four bottles of the leading brand of coconut oil, enough to last two years of our serious, nothing but…
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Continue reading →: Writing me, myself, and I
“Seriously, you should listen to me,” says me. “I am the most brilliant person I know.” I know that my ideas must be good. I should know. I listen to myself all day. I make sure I catch ’em ideas before they escape. ‘Em ideas arise from one end of…
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Continue reading →: Blogging and voice
I wonder how many of us take a conscious decision to become the people we are and how many of us just come to be as we wander through life. Each human being is already complex. Put one human being in touch with another and you have an even more…
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Continue reading →: “We’re all mad here.”
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Every now and then, a comment will make you smile. Here’s one on my post Must you keep blogging Mr. Blogger by inconspicuouscreation totally summing up some of the stuff I write: Bottledworder: a blogger…
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Continue reading →: And so it was in college
In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. A very long time ago, when we were young, emotions were pure and life was new. Nights were balmy, feelings were free from shackles, winters were mild, and all the best quotes were beautiful the first…
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Continue reading →: Where is the story?
Sometimes you look at objects in your surroundings and feel like there’s a story that’s waiting to be told. There’s something that speaks to you and you want to give it a voice. But the story is so very nebulous that you wonder what it could become. The wispy words…
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Continue reading →: Must you keep blogging Mr. Blogger?
How do you stand out in the blogosphere? Do you want to? It’s important to ask that second question first because it’s tough work. Blogging. Because the work never gets done. And just when you think you’re done, say, when you realize you’ve reached a certain number of regular readers…
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Continue reading →: The phone call
The other day there was a sudden ring and a friendly voice on the phone. Unfamiliar yet somehow disconcertingly expectant. Sort of demanding almost. “Hi,” said the voice. “Hello.” That was me in my most careful, professional manner at the unexpected intrusion, hiding that of which I’m quite not sure…
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Continue reading →: 100,000 hits!
Feels good to have thrived a little more than a year now. Planning to keep improving the content and layout. Thanks readers. ~ BW
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Continue reading →: Two blogs I like
Description, detail and the worlds they create have been on my mind this week. While I realize the importance of description, I do agree with many commenters who have noted the difficulty of balancing details with action. I agree that if details are not adding up to something, going somewhere…
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Continue reading →: Writing and experience
It was as if I was right there. I felt like I was there with you. Can’t wait to visit the spots you’ve written about. Perhaps it was a post about the city in the hot Summer. Perhaps it was about the quiet night. Perhaps it was about a park…
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Continue reading →: Summer is here in Manhattan
Just a few weeks ago it had been unseasonably cold, dark and dreary in the city. It had drizzled all day. People had huddled under their umbrellas if they could keep those wispy things from being blown away by the tyrannical wind. The wind blew through the streets encouraged by…
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Continue reading →: Magic spaces in a globalized world
The sky lit up with a million iridescent fragments last night lighting up the dark surface of the Hudson and the hundreds of boats that had gathered there to watch the July 4th fireworks in reddish, whitish and bluish hues. There were crowds all along the edges of the water,…
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Continue reading →: What would Homer do?
There’s a lot of advice out there on how digital writing differs from traditional writing. Whenever a new way of expression is discovered, our response is exuberance and wonder at what current technology can do. Often, that kind of discussion spawns a myriad other discussions and rightly so. Sometimes, while…
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Continue reading →: Those scholars in our libraries
Originally posted on bottledworder: I was sitting at a university library in a small, white cubicle a few years ago. Those cubicles were just big enough for one person to sit in with a ledge that served as a table and a shelf above the ledge that held books. Under…
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