By all accounts there are beautiful, wonderful destinations all over the planet. None ultimately better than what we have around here, but nice none the less.   Friends, family, and coworkers have collectively travelled the far reaches of the planet and yet except for trips to visit family, I prefer home.   Home is where...

It was the one time that I remember being angry with my father and it turns out he was entirely correct. Around age ten, I was fascinated with all things ‘Indian’. My country has been peopled many times with inhabitants brought from other lands with earlier ones now referred to as ‘indigenous’.   My dad...

Without the benefit of living in someone elses skin, I have only my own experience to draw on. I’ll count reading and hearing the accounts of other people about their experiences as a form of personal experience because outside real events, reflecting on those will similarly affect personal change.   I almost used the word...

Upon learning that I have no television set, someone offered me one of their spares, which I turned down because I’d never watch it. Poverty wasn’t the moving cause of what many people would consider a lack. I just don’t want one. Theres not a need. It would never get turned on or if it...