Racing against time…
Nephew dearest had finally found his soul-mate and life partner...and the entire family breathed again! Weddings are becoming rarer, and therefore more precious to us senior folks. Talking about marr...
08 Jun 2015
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19 May 2015
All’s well that ends well….
Just a month ago, my knitting heart had been splintered to pieces by this project. It was the latest addition to my "commendable list of goof-ups" and here I had been dreaming about adding items to t...
16 May 2015
Necessity…and all that Jazz
A fortnight was flown past since the last painter stepped out of the house, leaving little paint splashes and sploshes on unexpected surfaces. Two weeks whooshed away in de-cluttering and holding obj...
30 Apr 2015
Voluntary House Arrest
Ten days of locking myself in...without locks or bolted doors or hidden keys. Ten days of whirling up an indoor tsunami and dumping everything in a totally alien spot. Shoes inside the washing machin...
22 Apr 2015
While I put down roots, others uproot themselves
It's three years today. 3 years of being " Mala Rani " ( name for saving my mobile number--I am hopelessly efficient at forgetting one of those 10 digits), of wondering what day/date/month/year when a...
17 Apr 2015
Big, beautiful and botched up
Weeks have slipped past, and I have helped them to slip past me with great excuses, gastronomic excesses, grand lazy days and quick trips to here, there and no-where. My morning routine is studded wi...
05 Apr 2015
There must be an office somewhere
There must be an office somewhere…a row of rooms encircled with a wide and shady corridor. The corridor has to be wide…It has to accommodate the day- groups of 7 and 10 and 14 days who troop across t...
24 Mar 2015
The wise people and the elephant
We have all heard that poem by John Godfrey Saxe.. that one about the six men of Indostan, wise and blind, who went to learn about an elephant. Based on the part of the elephant which they examine, th...
18 Mar 2015
The life changing magic of tidying up
What? You are reading a book on tidying up? Where did you find such a book? Who is teaching you how to tidy up things, considering your house is so neat and tidy already? How do still find things t...
14 Mar 2015
This big brown cardigan
Beautiful, graceful and big....these adjectives have been invented to describe a dear friend. She is gracious and stylish too. I have never seen her with a hair out of place, and I have never heard a ...