Vijaya Bodach

This is not my office; it is a picture of Will Rogers' desk (a replica), gracing the cover of the 2010 Bylines Calendar in which I have ...

Roe v Wade (January 22, 1973). I learned about this historic decision to legalize abortion in high school. Having come from a poor country, ...

My dear friend Bish is passing on the happy meme. When I was in India, my mother had a book called " Happiness is a Habit ." I nev...

The tragedy in Haiti always reminds me of poor places like India, where a flood or an earthquake can wipe out thousands in a day. We are so ...

News of this past week reminds me of the Buddhist tale that I happened to read in Mitch Albom's HAVE A LITTLE FAITH . The story goes li...

This is a reminder to back up all your stuff. Last week, my laptop somehow got infected with a particularly nasty virus so that I couldn...

The Great Critique always sneaks up on me ... it's next Tuesday and I'll be critiquing magazine and nonfiction manuscripts. This eve...

Bish tagged me a while back and the lazy girl I am, I'm just now getting round to this fun meme. It almost slipped my mind, but I ran a...

I was looking through some old pictures and came across one of my favorites. My girl (yes, it's a girl in spite of the hack job I've...

I love this time between Christmas and New Year, where I get to take stock of the year gone by, and see how I can improve. I know many folks...