Tell Me Another now includes 146 stories and has logged more than 30,000 page views from 132 different countries. I’ve been writing and posting the stories in a random order as they occur to me, and you can read them in that order in Contents to Date, but I thought I’d make a new table of contents with the stories listed in a loosely chronological order, starting with stories told to me of times before my birth and some of my earliest memories.
53. Sucking Lemons and Quoting Shaw (G)
36. My Grandmother
70. Party Pieces (G)
33. A Nice Bit of Spanish (G)
111. Strawberry-Picking Camp (G)
94. My Uncrowned Queens (G)
133. So Many Things Have Disappeared (G)
20. The Bay of Biscay and the Gully Gully Man (G)
26. Dolls I Have Loved (and Lost) (G)
75. The Long Journey (G)
18. Songlines
44. Greece in the 60s: Expats and Other Animals (G)
96. Learning to Swim (G)
34. His Master’s Voice (G)
104. Untangling (G)
120. I once was lost (and wish I still were) (G)
138. Learning How (Not) to See (G)
81. St. Catherine’s and Miss Tutte (G)
134. Darshan, or You Never Can Tell (G)
59. Childhood Scars
107. Kalo Paska (G)
25. British TV, Fall of ‘63 (G)
62. Regulation Underwear (G)
109 Hindi Lessons (G)
7. The Comic Shed (G)
112. Хоттабыч in India (G)
113. Riding Like the Wind (G)
12. Following the Elephant Spoor
146. Life on the Low Wire (G)
28. Pre-dawn Adventures (G)
16. Tree Elf
63. Secrecy and Velvet Bugs (G)
49. Making Sense of the Movies (G)
35. The Nation (G)
46. My Ink-Smudged Youth (G)
48. Jaggery Coconut, Nectar of the Gods (G)
143. Waste Not, Want Not (G)
68. Frittered!
52. Himalaya (G)
24. Hidden Places (G)
60. Cod-Liver Oil and Malt (G)
38. Study Halls and Cinchona (G)
27. Rumpelstiltskin (G)
54. Flash
119. Top of the Pops, 1968-69 (G)
67. Fiasco on the 715 (G)
47. The Paper Round (G)
125. My Autograph Book (G)
83. A Clear, Cold New England Day
84. Feasting or Fasting? (G)
4. The Tree House (G)
92. Cookbooks, Immigrants, and Improvisation (G)
141. The Yogi of Beals Street (G)
40. send my roots rain (G)
137. A Victorian Frame of Mind (G)
31. Gas-Station Shirts (G)
89. Make Love, Not Clockwork Devil-Doggery (G)
88. Sisters, Pick Up Your Sisters (G)
57. Toughening Up
3. The Horn Player in the Cupboard
5. Idolizing Princess Anne (G)
41. Eating for Four (G)
110. The Party (G)
1. Letting Go of the Clutch (G)
142. Route 66 (G)
23. Brackish Water and Cherry Soda (G)
144. The Blab-Off (G)
72. Learnin’ the Blues (G)
135. Doris Lessing and Me (G)
39. Two at a Time (G)
145. Just a little is enough. (G)
22. Mushrooming and Berry-Picking (G)
114. Food for People , Not for Profit (G)
14. Everett the Ice Man (G)
29. Incident at the Donner Pass (G)
116. Medicinal Herbs (G)
37. Grandpa Victor and the Story of the Tomatoes
128. The Kurta Joke G)
30. Land of Enchantment (G)
102. No Nuclear News (G)
61. Burma-Shave Signs (G)
82. What’s Your Bag? (G)
127. Going Up the Country (G)
69. Wonders in the Woods (G)
10. Ghosts of New Boston (G)
43. From a Railway Carriage (G)
108. Climb Over the Wall! (G)
21. The Highlanders (G)
77. The Tea Tasting (G)
86. Bottled Sunshine (G)
65. Curb Your Enthusiasm: A Bedtime Story (G)
13. Paradise Lost
50. Learning How to Fold (G)
42. The Times Tables (G)
91. Tunneling (G)
19. Lively Up Yourself (G)
85. St. Nicholas’ Day (G)
100. My American Epiphany
139. Sealed with a Kiss (G)
118. Racist Bracist (G)
117. Personal Space, Indian-Style (G)
76. Say it Again (G)
87. Thanda Thanda Pani or, You Never Miss Your Water… (G)
79. Baths, Bathing, and Hot Water Bottles (G)
103. Holi, Water Play, Rites of Spring (G)
98. Oral Culture (so to speak) (G)
15. Humans—What a Bummer! (G)
80. Who Are You? (G)
58. Southbound
90. “Almost a Dude” (G)
73. Trouble (G)
51. Getting Out of Silver City (G)
64. Concert Collage (G)
93. Snowed In (G)
97. Sick in Bed (G)
129. Good Morning, Rainy Day (G)
132. My Muddle (G)
130. Orwellian Jingles (G)
105. My Garden of Forking Paths (G)
126. Word Choice: Does it Matter? (G)
74. Three Towers, Three Coincidences
101. The Japan Syndrome (G)
122. The Land of the Free—Really? (G)
124. A Meditation on Money (G)
56. International Arrivals (G)
123. That Funny Accent (G)
115. An Immigrant’s Reflections on Independence Day (G)
66. The Mango Room (G)
131. Across the Miles (G)
121. The Taste of Home (G)
106. Slow: Salamander Crossing (G)
78. October Rains (G)
136. The Shame of Self-Censorship (G)
140 Music Alone Shall Live (G)
You should certainly be proud of the impressive list of stories which have enlightened and delighted so many people, Jojo!
I am proud of you and wonder if you have thought of putting it all in a book as a collection of stories and call it “Tell me another”. I remember when I discovered that Nikhil had asked you the same question that Jennie always asked me when they were both little, to tell them another story – particularly about life at Mount Hermon. You took it from there and now have a whole collection of wonderful tales which I, for one, would treasure in book form.
Marianne – One of your first fans!
You’re always so encouraging, Marianne. You are my ideal reader! I am thinking of whether/how I might pull together Tell Me Another as a collection of stories in some strange new category. I’d like to find an illustrator who could help me tie it all together with little pen-and-ink drawings for every few stories and the beginning of each section. Of course I want someone wonderful, like the late Edward Ardizzone—see “I Once Was Lost (and I wish I Still Were).”
Thank you, dear friend!