Satire
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
~ Philip Roth
The Pit in Your Stomach: Why Prince Harry and ‘Spare’ Children Struggle with Self-Worth
https://youtu.be/wVF0Y16g00c - - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Works Cited In Video https://futurestrong.org/2022/05/05/what-is-perspective-and-why-it-can-be-our-lifes-biggest-problem-solving-tool-ever/...
1950s Home Economics Tips: How to Care for Your Husband (Retro Advice for Modern Wives!)
- Have Dinner Ready Plan ahead - even the night before to have a delicious meal on time. This is a way to let him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospects of a good...
This Heartwarming Video Shows Empathy in Action – A Lesson in Kindness and Emotional Strength
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROekpzSgEY- What is Empathy? Empathy is how we treat absolute strangers. It is our ability to put ourselves in the situations that others are going through. When we communicate face to face with others, the mirror neurons in our...
Master the Art of Writing: Top Storytelling Hacks and Life Essays to Inspire Your Next Piece
On How To Write. “To me, a short story is a conversation between writer and reader, since only the writer can speak, she must take care to respect the reader, to avoid telling him what to think, to say as little as possible and imply the rest with metaphor,...
A Day in the Life of a Teacher: The Heartbeat of Education in the USA
- Me:Ok class, today... Student:This is stupid. I'd rather be playing video games. Office:*ring* Send (student) to the office. Voicemail:My kid told me that YOU... Email:We need you to sub on your prep. Teacher Coaches:Students are experiencing an all time...
Mom and the Pope Agree? This Viral Meme Made It Happen!
- I make lentils for lunch sometimes, and if you know Indian food, there's seasoning called Tadka (Hindi word) or Popu (Telugu word) that I add to it. It lends spice and flavor for the dish. And this meme is a "tribute" from my 12 year old ;-) - ...
Top Book And Movie Recommendations for Adults Who Want to Thrive and Succeed in Life
- "I write for kids, and kids tend to be optimists. Even when the book has a dark theme, it's always through the eyes of a fictional hero, a young person with integrity, someone a reader can identify with and in turn find a kind of integrity and power in...
Lil Uzi Vert’s Fake Third Eye Implant Takes the Internet by Storm – Here’s Why Everyone’s Talking About It
https://youtu.be/u34Xl--CtdY - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Photo Courtesy And ©: Twitter Account of Lil Uzi Vert - 0 - Hi, I’m Rachana. Its been my dream for years to do something to consciously create a...
Writer-At-Large – The Indian American Mom’s Weekly Review – Thursday
- Starring:Dad, mom (me), nanamma (dad’s mom), Boys – 12 year old Ky and 8 year old Moksh. - Continued from Wednesday - Thursday I copy hand written notes of a book called Belle Cora onto the computer wondering all the while if I...
Writer-At-Large – The Indian American Mom’s Weekly Review – Wednesday
- Starring:Dad, mom (me), nanamma (dad’s mom), Boys – 12 year old Ky and 8 year old Moksh. - Continued from Tuesday - Wednesday I wake up with my hair flying off in the wind and to a screeching sound of brakes before we hit a wall....
Writer-At-Large – The Indian American Mom’s Weekly Review – Tuesday
- Starring:Dad, mom (me), nanamma (dad's mom), Boys - 12 year old Ky and 8 year old Moksh. - Continued from Monday - Tuesday I wake up Ky at 7am and he complains that his nada (a rope that's used to hold a petticoat up underneath a...
Writer-At-Large – The Indian American Mom’s Weekly Review – Monday
- Starring:Dad, mom (me), nanamma (dad's mom), Boys - 12 year old Ky and 8 year old Moksh. - Monday Morning, I kill a cockroach in the sauna at the gym appropriately named, “Crunch”. A Swami (Hindu learned man) is visiting our temple this week in...
Standing Up to Amy Schumer: A Cultural Critique of Comedy, Feminism, and Modern Values
Amy Schumer is a stand-up comedian whose “brave” material mostly consists of musings about her hookups – sexual encounters with relative strangers. And below is my review of her 2016 memoir, The Girl with a Lower Back Tattoo. Since finishing it yesterday evening, I...
Perceiving My Anthropology
- I don't know what moves him.I remember the day he came back home tohide his red eyes behind that newspaperafter he lit his mother's pyre.This is the man, the brunt of all my emotions,whose lifetime fits in this poem. It's mostly the appalling nature of...
If Oreos Were Pets
- The ghostwriter for this short story is my 7 year old. According to him, this is how I would write about the lady bug who has come to live with us. - - 0 - Hi, I’m Rachana. Its been my dream for years to do something to consciously...
Writer-At-Large – A Krash Kourse on The Kardashians
- Tag line: From the perspective of the Indian-American experience. Below is the quickest way to educate yourself about the most coveted reality family of America. The Kardashian - Jenner family. Bruce Jenner WAS the family patriarch, the dad of some 15 kids....
Dear Lena: An Open Letter
- I feel sorry that you did not write a mind-blowing autobiography. There was not a single sentence in your book, Not that kind of Girl, where I truly laughed out loud. The irony being that, only if this entire book was fiction, I would have laughed hard at the...
Writer-At-Large – The 2014 Indian-American Documentary
- Disclaimer: Dear friends and family, life in 2014 for the Somayajulas has been more than spectacular. In fact, our year has been filled with mind-numbing mundane details. Please accept this heavily exaggerated Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year photo...