The Savior Scarf
This scarf has not (yet) saved any damsels and dashing men in distress. No, it hasn't been lowered dramatically from a window ablaze with gusty flames, to help distraught human beings escape a fiery d...
07 Apr 2014
Posts by Needlestosaymore
05 Apr 2014
Falling off the circuit into the lazy groove
4 weeks of this blog have yet to elapse, and I have been pushing this project into the UFO group of my life….these unfinished objects and projects, my dear readers, are present in every nook and corne...
01 Apr 2014
The Hamlet in the City
Delhi is a beautiful city. Spring is her best fashion designer, adding bright hues to the landscape, green highlights to the skyscape, and smiles to the humanscape. Summer is still waiting on the sid...
27 Mar 2014
The PC experience…from pine cones to parked cars.
I am in Delhi these days...the air and light filled home has been locked and the entire clan has descended to the plains. Dogs, daughters, knitted stuff, clothes and water bottles—everything packed in...
20 Mar 2014
What is THAT smell?
We went for a walk today evening, ED and me…three dogs in tow, and clouds gathering overhead. Lightning flashed in the sky, cold clear winds breezed through our sweaters and the main topic of discussi...
18 Mar 2014
Tests
Some time ago, I had this amazing book on my shelf—full of nifty cartoons and deep common sense. A book which had chapters on “how to say NO”, getting past tough times-- one hour at a time and other s...
14 Mar 2014
The art of crafting BIG throws
From school to college to medical school to marriage to parenthood to professionals to becoming successful women of the world—and the friendship remained. It went through the angst of comparisons, of ...
13 Mar 2014
The most memorable journey…till date
I spent the better half of today thinking of what to write about…some more lovely word pictures about this heart-warming little town which has adopted me. Or a blithe post about the dogs and their dai...
11 Mar 2014
When spring is in the air, can winter be far behind?!
The first sign of spring in our hills…the yellow jasmine shrubs blossom in abundance. Six months of layering clothes, donning a cap at bedtime, blessing electric blankets and heaters, climbing into a...
10 Mar 2014
The growly game-changer
I can call her "the happy hogger", " the weird waddler", the iffy bear, or Pepper…what's in a name? It's that core being, inside all that shaggy hair, that punky face and the (debatable) lard around ...