by admin | May 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
It has been a trying week being down with one infection or the other. One of my problems with illness is that beyond the discomfort, the lying in, the medicines, etc., it annoys me immensely. Not very mature of me but that is how I feel. I fret about lost time. About...
by admin | Feb 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, the sweetest and most beautiful dog passed away. While I knew he was not going to live forever, I did not put it past him. He had already defied most odds. You don’t get to be almost seventeen years of age if you are a Labrador. He came to us, the size of a...
by admin | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
A new year has always seemed like a harbinger of hope to the eternal optimist in me. It seems to be positively brimming with new beginnings; of doing things that I would like to but never get around to doing. Yes, it means I shall plan to do Yoga this year. Get more...
by admin | Nov 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Nope, this is not about the Cricket World Cup. Even though a non-follower of the sport like me is unashamedly jubilant at the way Indians are making mincemeat of the other teams. This is about age, and the restrictions that we impose on ourselves for being a certain...
by admin | Sep 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
The doctor was late. I sat soothing my extremely punctual fuming but stressed patient that this problem was geography agnostic. A young woman whose face and neck were selectively covered with numbing cream sat waiting with her extremely voluble well-heeled mother. As...
by admin | Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Leaving the sweltering heat outside, I entered the mall with the focused intention of withdrawing cash for an imminent trip. But as soon as I had walked past the security frisking to the central area, I was disoriented. For a moment I could not remember where I had...
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