..while I have steadily gained weight (and with decreasing frequency lost some of it) over the years, it was only with the introduction of the scale into my life that I made my weight the barometer of all my successes. I also determined my happiness based on where I stood on the scale.… Read More The Heavy Metaphor of the Weighing Scale
I am deeply terribly welded-to-the-bed unhappy. My immune system is particularly vigilant. The moment it senses a single disease- causing microorganism in a 1 KM radius, it deploys its drunk-on-power-mad-dictator mode and launches a full-on attack. Think nuclear codes. This has meant that I have practiced at COVID consistently for two years now. We are… Read More Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you
I had kicked off 2021 by reading Anne Bogel’s I would Rather Be Reading, in which she highly recommends maintaining a book journal. It only took me a year to implement the thought. It might take me a few months to make it a habit. Your job is to keep me honest, got it? Here’s sharing my January reads to sweeten the deal.… Read More January at the Poles
As I look back to 2021, here’s sharing some of my favorite books, that I recommend that you put on your reading list.… Read More Bookending the Year that Was
My principal take-away is not a feeling of ‘hey thanks universe for lessons learnt’. Instead, it is a bone-deep weariness of having to adult. Of coming to terms with mortality – and not only mine. Of reading obituaries filled with love and loss..… Read More That January Feeling
In which a middle aged woman battles with a bloody razor and the road not taken… Read More Trying but failing to put lipstick on a hairy pig
It is a widely known fact that I was going to fail my Class 12th Board Biology exams. This is not one of those humble brag stories, where like the quintessential (female) class-topper I cry copious tears over one missed answer and believe that it is the end of the world. My biology teacher predicted… Read More Love in the Times of Imminent Failure
Step 1: Set alarm for 5:30 AM because husband needs a human alarm clock to wake him up for his super-early work meeting. Step 2: Binge Read till 2 AM in the morning because of 3,304 upsetting things in life and general anxiety disorder. Step 3: Wake husband up at 5:30 AM and go back… Read More How to Make Baingan Ka Bartha or Roasted Eggplant-Indian-Style in 20 Easy Steps
“…wild cherry blossoms Glowing in the morning sun.” Motoori Norinaga was a Japanese physician born in 1730. Norinaga composed thousands of poems, many of which were dedicated to wild cherry blossoms. This scholar, in love with the ethereal ‘colour and perfume’ of the delicate flowers that blossom so briefly, gave words to the emotion of… Read More Timeless Raindrops on the Rocks from the Basement of Time
I am on a journey this year to travel in the footsteps of Sita. Literally, I shall be visiting the modern-day places associated with her. Metaphorically, I am reading various translations and versions of Ramayana in a bid to explore Sita’s tale. I would love it if you came along for the journey. Do help… Read More A Daughter is Born
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