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Full Steam Ahead..!
Many decades ago, on long train journeys, my father would take me to the end of the long platform and
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February 10, 2022
A Head Covering and Sweet Voice..!
In the gigantic auditorium in Manila, in the Philippines, her voice richer than that of a nightingale filled the hall.
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February 9, 2022
Lone Slipper on the Railway Track..!
He had decided to end his life, and the place he had chosen was the railway track just before the
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February 8, 2022
Garbage Hacker..!
The scream came from the bedroom, “Lizard?” I asked casually from the sitting room and found no reply, “Cockroach?” I
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February 7, 2022
Make Me A Match.!
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a match Find me a find, Catch me a catch Matchmaker, Matchmaker Look through your books
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February 6, 2022
The Bible and Technology..!
Someone forwarded me a letter from a Mani, who wrote saying the Bible would disappear in the next fifty years
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February 5, 2022
A Nobel Prize for Fiction..!
Just two weeks before the budget, a silver haired lady looked up from her writing as her economist husband approached
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February 4, 2022
Don’t Die like the Dead Sea..!
Many friends send me pictures of them floating on the Dead Sea! But the Dead Sea is dying! The Dead
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February 3, 2022
Are You a Root or Leaf?
“A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.” President Woodrow Wilson. What people see are your leaves, the outside,
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February 2, 2022
A Wolves Fairy Tale…!
As I watch a bishop being set Scot-free by a court which found too little evidence given by the prosecution
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February 1, 2022
Reach Out and Touch..!
Up there in heaven, Mother Teresa, or St Teresa as she is now, must be looking down with sadness at
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January 31, 2022
Life Jam..!
Thought I’d spend the evening at the club last night and as we drove towards dusk, I noticed there was
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January 30, 2022