Jaya Padmanabhan entered boarding school when she was four, and has been a sales rep, a software engineer and now a fiction writer, journalist and editor. This week the Examiner columnist and author of the short-story collection Transactions of Belonging joins Larry and guest co-host Laurie Ann Doyle to trace her path, talk about how readers respond to “ambiguous” endings, a lifelong interest in displacement and belonging, her novel-in-progress … and toddy tappers.“Writing is a reflex action that comes out of reading, at least for me.”7:12: Writing across a “broad spectrum”13:12: “The epiphany,” and learning to write short stories20:55: Her favorite stories, and how readers responded to “His Curls”29:48: The roots of a lifelong interest in displacement and belonging41:30: Entering the world of journalism49:48: New projects, toddy tappers