Somewhere along the way, tension became a virtue. If you are busy, you must be important.If you are stressed, you…
There was a time when sugar didn’t come from the store first. It came from next door. You knocked, embarrassed…
They were not fighting. That matters. This was one of those quiet evenings where nothing was wrong, which somehow makes…
We used to arrive places with our whole body. Now we arrive physically, while the rest of us is still…
They sit at the table, still fill up the room,Their coat on the hook, their mug on the chair,We talk…
We were raised on urgency. Not the healthy kind, like running toward something meaningful, but the twitchy, stress-fuelled kind that…
A country is not a line on a map or a piece of cloth fluttering on a pole. Borders can…
Let’s be honest. If intimacy had a customer service line, most long-term couples would be on hold listening to soft…
Here is the quiet truth about regret. It does not knock politely. It barges in unannounced, usually late at night,…
Valentine’s Day did not begin with price jacked-up menus and panic buying at the jewellery counter. Its roots stretch back…