My Living Obituary

I Wasn't Dead, Just Thinking About Retirement!

The Soul of Carrara

What Sleeps Within the Stone

Is Pinterest a Viable Marketing Strategy for Indie Authors?

Here’s my experience

We are betting on human intelligence

Meet TK, an agentic notebook for writing and thinking

The Hunger to Be Useful

Why We Don’t Just Want to Belong — We Want to Matter

No-BS Advice for People Who Want Financial Freedom

What nobody on Instagram will tell you, and the unglamorous path that actually works

Is posting on social media worth it?

Now, you might think posting on social media is pointless. You hardly get any views, likes, comments, or subscribers. Nobody seems…

Our Babies Are Bleeding

Two new studies on the vitamin K shot, and why so many parents are saying no to it

My Mother Wanted a Beauty Queen. I Got a Lifetime of Medical Problems.

At 13, I had perfect skin. Decades later, I’m still living with the consequences of what happened next

How Many New Years Does India Celebrate?

A Little Girl's Question to Her Grandmother Opens a Window Into India's Beautiful Cultural Diversity

My Daughter Told Me a Story, and I Published It

How "The Half-Blood Girl of Houston" went from a bedtime idea to a published novella

I’m Growing Older, but I Refuse to Grow Bitter

On my 46th birthday, a few thoughts on ageing, staying young at heart, and the people who have shaped my journey.

I Stopped Drinking Coffee for 30 Days. This Happened to My Brain.

I didn't think I had a coffee problem until I tried to stop drinking it.

Funding, Trust, and the Next Pandemic

Lessons from AIDS and COVID

If AI Can Do Your Job Better, Do You Believe You Still Get to Keep It?

Everyone believes in meritocracy until a machine outperforms them. Then suddenly, fairness, dignity, and the right to earn a living become…

The Financial Price of Social Media Disinformation

The real costs of our complacency regarding social media abuses

Why I Stopped Helping People

The best help you can offer is to let the other person drown themselves.

How Can We Forget a Truth We Already Know?

Dhikr in Sufism: Remembrance, Awareness, and the Awakening of the Heart

The Era Of Six-Figure Writing Jobs Might Be Over

I’ve spent seven years writing for a living but I’m not sure how much longer it will last.