A Very Fortunate Life

It Feels Like All Play And No Work

This brief post is a reply to a wonderful comment left on my blog a couple of hours ago by Utah-based Deborah Gamble who said: ``How do you score such great jobs - like writing novels and photographing Quebec City? Yours is a dream life!''

Yes, I have a dream life. I have been happily married to the girl of my dreams for 20 years - and we have been together since she was in pigtails. We have three loving children who bring us joy, pride and happiness. If that's not a dream life, then I don't know what is.

Yes, I write novels. And yes, I am lucky enough to use my cameras in some incredible places around the world. And yes, I enjoy my full-time job as a newspaper journalist. But I'd like to point out that I also had a really happy, secure childhood in Calcutta, surrounded by people who showered me with love, respect and affection in equal measures. And if you'd like to find out about that wonderful chapter in my life, check out Calcutta Revisited and you'll see how life is really one big circle.