Life & Uncertainty
July 2025
This Unpredictable Life
A reflection on life’s unpredictability, where chance, loss, and fleeting moments intertwine to create meaning, resilience, and quiet hope.
Life & Uncertainty
January 2025
Life's Absurdities, One Therapy Quote at a Time
I’ve realized that life is mostly made up of little absurdities — those quiet, daily frustrations that never make the highlight reels but somehow define...
Life & Uncertainty
November 2024
The Cost of Our Failures
In the quiet ritual of cooking his own meal, Jai carries both the absence of love and the radiant proof of his own resilience—reminding me that some strength is born, not given.
Life & Uncertainty
October 2024
The Currency of Life
A simple argument about costly running shoes becomes a meditation on how money quietly runs the theater of our lives.
Life & Uncertainty
October 2024
The Beautiful Absurdity of Waking Up
A parent moves through the chaotic sweetness of a morning routine with his son, finding quiet beauty in the everyday.
Life & Uncertainty
September 2024
The Chaos of Now: Is It All in My Head?
At 3 a.m., wrapped in laundry and chaos, I realized that life’s absurdity, emotions, and the universe itself all unfold within me—and sometimes that’s enough to keep laughing.
Life & Uncertainty
August 2024
Navigating Daily Frustrations
A bad morning spirals into a funny realization that even “ancient wisdom” might just be someone else having a rough day and writing about it
Life & Uncertainty
April 2023
Gold Medal in Overthinking
Worry, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is “to think about problems or unpleasant things that might happen in a way that makes you feel unhappy...
Life & Uncertainty
November 2022
Dreams
A stream of tender, free-spirited dreams blending love, freedom, and the longing to simply exist and feel alive.
Life & Uncertainty
September 2022
Rewind - an unfinished story
A mid-air scare triggers a flood of memories about a lost love, revealing the lingering battle between heart, ego, and the ache of what might have been.
Life & Uncertainty
March 2022
Death - the Ultimate Truth
Our fear of death has shaped religions, myths, and philosophies for centuries, yet the real irony is that in worrying about death we often forget to fully live the life we already have.
Life & Uncertainty
February 2022
The Green Card Diary
A journey that began with glamorous dreams slowly revealed itself through cereal dinners, snowstorms, strange friendships, and the quiet resilience required to build a life far from home.
Life & Uncertainty
September 2019
Those were the days
A nostalgic reflection on a passionate young love—tender, imperfect, and beautifully alive in memory.
Life & Uncertainty
May 2019
25
Life’s a chariot ride of desire, ego, and chance, where we hold on through chaos and keep moving together
Life & Uncertainty
March 2019
Life Explained
Life is an uncertain balancing act between desire and contentment, where the only truth is the fleeting present and the only wisdom is to embrace change
Life & Uncertainty
January 2017
The Mansion
A portrayal of a seemingly perfect, wealthy life masking control, emotional loss, and unseen suffering behind a carefully crafted facade.
Life & Uncertainty
May 2016
Pause
Mindfulness is the awareness we gain when we focus our attention on our inner sensations and emotions, or toward our immediate environment. But more than...
Life & Uncertainty
August 2015
Conversation with Life
'Letting go' is the quiet acceptance of life as it is—allowing thoughts, pain, and joy to pass without attachment, and awakening to the deeper self that walks alongside it all.
Life & Uncertainty
November 2014
Those Lazy Days
A busy adult nostalgically yearns for the carefree, gloriously lazy days of youth spent cloud-watching, daydreaming, and wandering without purpose or worry.
Life & Uncertainty
March 2014
Threshold
A reflective passage through time urges letting go of the past, embracing uncertainty, and stepping forward into life’s ever-changing unknown.
Life & Uncertainty
February 2014
Breaking Free
A journey of immigration evolves from attachment and nostalgia to emotional detachment, as the speaker redefines identity beyond their homeland.
Life & Uncertainty
December 2013
The Invite
A man confronts a terminal cancer diagnosis with initial shock and rage, but fueled by love for his family, defiantly refuses death's invitation and chooses to fight.
Life & Uncertainty
September 2013
Signature
Life is a personal journey of creating your own unique 'signature,' guided by experiences, emotions, and destiny that echo beyond time.
Life & Uncertainty
February 2013
Utopia
An exhausted soul longs to escape overwhelming darkness, inner turmoil, and false hope in search of peace and release.
Life & Uncertainty
February 2013
Our Strange World
Two hearts weighed down by pain and misunderstanding wonder if love can ever bridge the distance time has created.
Life & Uncertainty
October 2012
Be a Good Little Monkey
A mischievous, curious little explorer—just like Curious George—turns everyday moments into playful adventures that leave his mom equal parts amazed, exasperated, and amused.
Life & Uncertainty
August 2012
Tap Tap Tap
Living life one 'tap' at a time, as the mundane becomes endlessly shareable.
Life & Uncertainty
August 2012
Two Worlds
A parent reflects on the growing divide between adult concerns and a child’s simpler world.
Life & Uncertainty
March 2012
15
A troubled marriage quietly sustained for fifteen years despite the absence of love.
Life & Uncertainty
January 2012
An elephant wins a friend
A gentle children’s story about a lonely elephant who eventually finds friendship with a brave little girl.
Life & Uncertainty
September 2011
Wrinkles on the face
A thoughtful reflection on aging where wrinkles become symbols of memories and lived experiences.
Life & Uncertainty
May 2011
Reflection
A lyrical meditation on nature’s beauty and the peaceful emotions it awakens.
Life & Uncertainty
May 2010
Living the Dead Life
A life story showing how constantly postponing happiness can lead to a lifetime never truly lived.
Life & Uncertainty
September 2009
One Way Street
A reflection on the irreversible passage of time and the realization that life only moves forward.
Life & Uncertainty
August 2009
Angry
A raw confession of anger directed at the world before realizing the true source lies within oneself.
Life & Uncertainty
September 2008
First Day at School
A tender moment where a parent watches a child bravely step into the world on their first day of school.
Life & Uncertainty
November 2005
Broken Leg
A tragic reflection on abandonment and loneliness when an injured woman finds herself forgotten by family.
Life & Uncertainty
December 2002
Little World
A playful poem imagining the world through the curious and innocent eyes of a nine-month-old baby.
Life & Uncertainty
August 2000
Caught Between Two Worlds
An introspective essay about immigrants torn between returning home and staying in the comfort of a new country.
Life & Uncertainty
July 1999
Death
A philosophical poem portraying death as the inevitable and peaceful final note in life's melody.
Life & Uncertainty
December 1996
Memories of Another Day
A reflective poem about running through life while memories of the past cling tightly to the present