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About Me

Hi and welcome! I’m Prasanta, a writer, poet, and artist, and mom of three fabulous kids. I’m a big fan of reading, coffee, dark chocolate, and writing. Always the writing.

I care about you, about the issues of our day, and about truth—and sharing truth and beauty with you. My posts are mostly about faith, but I write about parenting and social issues, too. Sign up for quarterly-ish newsletter, where I share what I’m reading, writing, or things I find interesting and amusing.

Porch Swing in September

by Prasanta | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized

(I'm not quite ready for the porch swinging to end! But I know those days are coming.) Porch Swing in September by Ted Kooser The porch swing hangs fixed in a morning sun that bleaches its gray slats, its flowered cushion whose flowers have faded, like those of...

Writing From Exile: Breakout Session

by Prasanta | Aug 9, 2020 | Hope, Inspiration, Poetry, poetry by others, speaking, Writers, Writing, writing journey

Hi Writing Friends! I'm honored to be leading a Breakout Session at the Breathe Writers Conference this fall! The session (and conference) will be virtual this year. Below is the summary for my session: Writing from Exile: Finding Hope Amidst Hardship—Prasanta...

Solstice Lament (Poem)

by Prasanta | Jun 21, 2020 | Poetry, Seasons, Summer

Solstice Lament A leaf, flower, blue egg blossom in brief— short season of thaw before heads scurry in holes. For now, irony— gaining inches of darkness while days shimmer in verdurous splendor, efflorescent interval. Light soon dissolves— night spreads...

Living in Pandemic Time

by Prasanta | Apr 30, 2020 | Life, Seasons, Time, Work, Writing, writing journey

We’ve heard of kairos time and chronos time. Maybe, tongue in cheek, now we have “pandemic time”. Indeed, how do we define time during a pandemic? There is the slow, thick movement of monotonous days at home during quarantines. Simultaneously, there is the sense of...

‘What Will a Life Magnify?’

by Prasanta | Apr 9, 2020 | Change, Christ, Christianity, Cross, God's love, Hope, Jesus, Lent, Love, Mercy, the cross

Did Jesus practice eucharisteo* as he walked to Calvary? As people spat and spurned, did he continue to give thanks to God the father? Did he continue to give thanks as he was so greatly burdened, bowed down with the heavy load, bruised, agonizing, and all he could...

Devotional from Nahum

by Prasanta | Apr 1, 2020 | Devotions, Easter, God's Faithfulness, God's Protection, Justice, Mercy, Uncategorized

I wrote this devotional months ago, long before any thought of a pandemic. Yet, isn't that true of any calamity? We don't know when one might happen. But one thing doesn't change: God is still the same God. He will address what's wrong in the world. “The Lord is good,...

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