Have you ever had a day when everything seems to be in sync? I’m having one of those days today, and it’s absolute perfection.

I woke up with a smile on my face, edits arrived today that were easy to deal with and were sent back within minutes, an editor e-mailed with ideas that I can fit into my schedule right after I come back from my break, one of my best friends called with some great news, and a check that’s been due for weeks just arrived. Can’t complain.

I don’t have much work-related news to report because I’ve been pulled in a dozen different directions and have been a bit scattered lately. Two things of note though: one, you’ll find me in the masthead of this month’s Elle India (and every month from here on out), and two, my latest piece on Delhi’s wastepickers appears in the February issue of The Caravan magazine and has been getting some wonderful feedback. You can read “The Treasure of Trash” by following this link.

In personal news, I’m being forced to do the thing I detest most: shopping. The other day, I had four hours to kill while I was waiting for my mother to finish work, and she practically shoved a credit card in my hand and pushed me towards the biggest mall in the city with the orders to buy “something, anything.” While I was trapped there for those four hours, I did what any sane person in my position would have done: I sat on a bench and finished my novel. Did I mention I hate shopping?

I’ve been meaning to post regularly on the blog, but I don’t want to write for the heck of it, and these days, I feel like I don’t have much to say about the freelancing world. Today, after ages, I woke up with a need to write, to journal if need be, and maybe even do a bit of work. I’ve been moaning about being stressed and maybe even taking an extended break, but this morning, I missed work so badly, I almost sent out a pitch for a timely two-day story. But I know I can’t do justice to work this week, so for now, I’ll make peace by trying to post often.

Where have you been published lately?