Life Stories is where the ordinary things sit before they become stories. A sentence overheard, a room remembered, a small irritation, a moment that looked harmless at first and then refused to leave. These pieces are about everyday life, memory, family, work, identity, and the strange ways we become ourselves while doing everything else.
We could have been Gen Y. Instead, we became millennials: the generation that remembers landlines and floppy disks, but somehow also has to manage passwords, updates, and overflowing cloud storage.
We Could Have Been Gen Y Read More »
I started the A to Z Challenge thinking I had chosen storytelling as a theme. Twenty-six posts later, I realised I had been writing about people, survival, identity, discomfort, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep going.
What The A to Z Challenge Taught Me About Storytelling Read More »
We call it a fresh start, a new chapter, ground zero. But sometimes the story of starting over is less about becoming someone new, and more about finding the courage to begin while carrying everything we always carry.
Zero: The Stories We Tell About Starting Over Read More »
Sometimes, Yes doesn’t arrive as a decision. It arrives as duty, peacekeeping, family expectation, and survival. Then, years later, we call it “how things went” because that is easier to live with.
Yes: The Stories We Tell When We Have No Choice Read More »
What looks like warmth from the outside often feels like responsibility from the inside. This is a story about overfeeding guests, hiding effort, and the inherited performance of hospitality.
Xenial: The Stories We Tell Around Hospitality Read More »
Women are often asked to explain choices that men make without a story. Work, travel, ambition, self-care, success, even distance from people. All arrive with a justification attached. Here are some of the stories women learn to tell before anyone asks, and the uncomfortable truth of how often we pass them on.
Women: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves Read More »
Viewpoint changes everything. Through motherhood, work, myth, judgement and myth, we look at what happens when the story moves from where we stood to where someone else did.
Viewpoint: The Stories That Look Different From the Other Side Read More »
Urban stories rarely look like the ones we grew up with. In cities, comfort can hide struggle, objects can become lifelines, and old instincts often misread what modern lives are built around.
Urban: The Stories That Live in Cities Read More »
Taste feels personal, almost instinctive. But food, clothes, homes, and even the sarees that break our own rules often carry older stories of availability, repetition, culture, aspiration, and the small choices that slowly become a self.
Taste: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About What We Like Read More »
Some silences are taught as safety before we understand them as silence. They arrive as instructions, advice, concern, and protection, until one day you realise you are still walking through the world with your eyes straight ahead.
Silence: The Stories We Don’t Tell Out Loud Read More »
