How to write a story

It’s been a long standing ambition of mine to write a novel, or a story of some kind, put it in a book and have it published. I actually started writing a book in 2010 or 2011. After a few hundred words were written I began to wonder what it was I was really doing.…

Punjabi in Paris – Day 5 – Vast Versailles

So here we go again. Another travelogue. This time to a hunting cottage of the Kings of France. Now if you're thinking about a run down, ramshackle wooden cabin in the woods, remember: This is France It had a Revolution ( The Revolution ) yup! Capital T, Capital R. Long before the Ruskies, the French showed…

Banana Bread

I haven't given you a recipe in a while. I haven't give you a story in a while. I haven't given you a rant.. uh, well, ok, it hasn't been that long since I put up a rant. Anyway, here is a recipe, an honest to goodness recipe. But first! Buy bananas. Forget they exist…

Daniels come to judgement!

We're a judgemental lot, we are. I'm no sociologist, and far too lazy to research it, but it may be that making judgements is at the root of homo sapien's instinct for survival. In the modern era, with the interweb weaving it's magical tendrils all around us and enabling snappy judgements, we are more enmeshed…