I first read Pnin as a teenager. It was my father’s recommendation that I start exploring the scintillating world of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels with this […] Read More
Category: Funny
Ending up talking to someone in a call center, half a world away, about a lost package or a flight cancellation, is as trivial an […] Read More
We are back from our first trip to France in two years. We caught up with our family and with our friends; with urban France […] Read More
A guessing game I think I have become increasingly good at, having run my online French grocery store Simply Gourmand for over a decade now, […] Read More
It happened to me fairly often when I lived in New York. I would spot two or more people from a distance, walking on a […] Read More
It happened yesterday morning. I was on my way to meeting Appa and Minette to pick a Christmas tree in that parking lot near St […] Read More
I have lived long enough in the United States to know for a fact that Americanness is a many-faceted thing. Along with inspiring facets, disturbing […] Read More
This year Minette has become an amateur and eager practitioner of literal jokes. It all began when my friend Tomoko gave her an Amelia Bedelia […] Read More
It is warm but not yet hot as we are going up the path leading to the ancient Jain temple. We started our excursion early […] Read More
A few months ago Appa woke up on a morning and told me about an intriguing dream he’d had. He was back home in India […] Read More