Last week, I was talking to my writing mentor on the phone, a man who has written over three dozen bestselling books and novels and whose work has been instrumental for me in finding sanity and levelheadedness as a creative person. Here’s something you probably don’t know about me: I’m a bit of a people […]

Earlier this year, I got angry. Pissed off. I realized that after fourteen years of being a writer—full-time, no less—I have still not started my career as an author. I have written almost a thousand articles, often for prestigious publications, I can put out an e-course with 60,000 or more words in it in less […]

Last week, in the middle of a conversation, my husband Sam turned to me and said, “If anyone overheard us talking right now, they’d think we were delusional.” It wouldn’t be the first time either he or I would be accused of that. I grew up in India in a frugal and conservative middle-class household. […]

Four months ago, we took our cat into the vet’s office to be put down. This was a very, very difficult decision. Our cat was healthy, he was young, but he was also becoming increasingly aggressive and unmanageable. We had put up with and tried to train him out of attacking me, but when it […]