Fond Farewell To Pre-School Nomadism

by Gay Mitra - February 17, 2016October 25, 201613

33 countries under her teeny crocheted belt. Some people think that, for her age, it ain’t nothing but a number. Sure, she can’t remember all the country names (and never correctly pronounced most of them). She can’t remember the tens of airports she passed through (though the memory lingers briefly for she’s got a photographic…

The Brag Corner: UNESCO World Heritage Sites I’ve Visited

by Gay Mitra - September 23, 2014December 2, 20157

Like, someone cares. And that’s why such wee space in this blog is aptly named “The Brag Corner”. You see, on a sizzling hot day in Leon, Nicaragua when I don’t feel like sightseeing nor working, I think of trivial things to do. Today, I thought of tallying the world heritage sites I have stepped…

Book Sharing Project 2012: Three Flights To A Library

by Gay Mitra - September 19, 2013August 12, 20144

I got choked up. And I must have squeezed my daughter Luna a little too tight. She fought her way out of my embrace and ran towards a gaggle of loitering pupils. I was standing on stage in the middle of a half-century-old school, forcing my weepy eyes to stay open. Three months we waited…

2012 Year-Ender/World-Ender

by Gay Mitra - December 20, 2012August 12, 201462

Ahhh… 2012. You are an ebullient homage to wanderlust. Frankly, I am quite obsessed with your ruffled months. In fact it’s almost midnight and amid that end-of-the-world hullabaloo, here I am fondly sewing a patchwork of idyllic imagery to commemorate your flamboyance and purport. Now this may seem like a pathetic way of exiting the…