Bougainvilleas

In my humble, nothing-great-achieved-in-writing opinion, what you need to have to be a good writer is a keen sense of observation of people and things. Even if you lack the imagination to present your observations in a Pulitzer-worthy way, the observation itself is sometimes enough. Of course, if you have insight and presentation skills, that's just the icing on the cake. Trust me, not everyone pays attention to what they observe. It is the reason why standup comedians are thriving. They observe what you and I do, but they make diligent notes of it maybe and present it humorously. They are essentially making us laugh at things we have seen all the time but failed to analyze and interpret. We have missed seeing the irony in our observations.  I am reading short stories by the very talented K. A. Abbas. The stories are so touching because they are about people and their circumstances, their thinking, their plight, and how they get by in life or to death. In reading his stories, I