All Entries Tagged With: "Nostalgia"

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to – John Ed Pierce My grandfather was Leonard Alphonse Laporte. (Note the small ‘p’ in LaPorte – in high school I decided a capital P was more elegant.) Like most French Canadian grand-daughters, I called him Pepe [...]

Why catch up? Why meet up? I had carried these questions with me to India and found somebody I thought could answer this question.

After a stressful day of daily chores, I finally made some time to do laundry. I rushed towards the laundry shop as the time to close was approaching. I put all my clothes in machine and I sat to wait till my clothes were washed. It was Independence day in Belgium and everything was closed. [...]

Now that he is gone don’t you miss him? Desperately? His trance like music? His unique rhythm? His gyrating, levitating, unique dance style? His soul stirring music! Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) conceptualized, visualized, created and popularized several physically complicated dance techniques, such as the ‘Robot’ and the ‘Moonwalk.’ He [...]

“Oh how the world has changed over these years!” I have often exclaimed.  Scientists have introduced us to so many newer technologies in the fields of medicine, engineering, electronics and household comforts for us.  But where the new generation is going in terms of the values that were imbibed in us when we were children, [...]

Would somebody tell me how valuable I am? Am I more valuable dead than alive? You would of course say “alive”. Truly you would say I am asking a pointless and silly question. Very well, then would you explain to me why nobody could find time to visit Mr. X when he was alive but [...]

For those of you who are familiar with the ins and outs of tea life, the sentence is self-explanatory. Almost to the extent of abracadabra. One can almost visualize a tiny tot, who comes into this world, after endless months of patience, with expectant parents under half-baked medical conditions, and lack of communication to share [...]

Remember the times when, not so long ago, there was an eagerly awaited person every day? The postman in his khaki on his bicycle. As he clanged his bell, our hearts stopped. We wished he had something for us too. An envelope or a little postcard. Or a greeting card from a friend or a [...]