In our book club meetup yesterday, our host asked us – when is it ever okay to make the decision to end a life or “pull the plug”? The easy answer, I think is that if a person is choosing to end their life because of extenuating circumstances, then its okay. This is also perhaps…
Category: Slice of life
Everyday life tales
Feelings Review: The Night Circus
The joy of discovering someone else’s world is one of the biggest reasons I love fantasy. When fantasy is rooted in real life, it demands more of us. We’ve to suspend disbelief in parts – which is perhaps more difficult. Two men believe in two different schools of magic. How does one know which is…
Feelings Review: Still Alice
Our book club read ‘Still Alice’ by Lisa Genova this last month. This isn’t a book review though. This is a feelings review – chock full of spoilers – so be warned. Feelings review – because with this book, you could like it, you could hate it – but you will find it really difficult…
If I could grieve
If I could grieve, The half an hour spent next to you in the car begging you to keep listening, to take long breaths, to stay with me – watching as your eyes remained closed, breathing ragged, tongue trapped between your teeth. The seconds it took for Doctors in the ER to cut off your…
Leaving Scars
When Aadya kanna was six months old, we made an appointment to have her ears pierced – in line with the age old tradition of doing it when the child is a mere baby. I didn’t even give the decision much thought. It just sounded like something that was always done. Aadya did not cry…
#SlowWalkTuesdays
For the first time in a while, I switched out my daily run for a walk. Inspired in part by this Brain Pickings reflective edition on walks and in part by a feeling that it is time to take stock. I’m not much of a new year resolution person. I’m a pre-new year resolutions person….
Finding comfort in rituals
A little over a year back, one day I decided I wanted to do something that’d count as exercise. Well the decision made itself. I was lifting Aadya kanna out of the bathtub and felt my back all of a sudden come to terms with my age. Having decided that I owed it my girl…
Children’s Book: Ruby Finds A Worry
We returned a great find back to the library y’day. A beautiful book by Tom Percival which is one in a series of books about feelings. ‘Ruby Finds A Worry’ is all about how a young Ruby discovers her very first worry. She struggles with it even as she realizes no one around her can…
Children’s Book: Very Little Cinderella
If you must read a fairy tale to young ‘un, then look for Teresa Heapy’s retelling of classic fairy tales. In Heapy’s Very Little Cinderella, Cinderella is armed to the hilt with irreverence, knows exactly what she wants and does not take no for an answer. Essentially, every toddler ever. The Ugly Sisters(note: Ugly being…
Children’s Book: Four Friends Together
What can ever be better than a book ? A book about reading a book. And that’s what ‘Four Friends Together’ is. It’s about the heartwarming ritual of reading. Finding a good book(in this case it’s held tightly by a sleeping friend), finding the best position to read it in and adjusting & re-adjusting until…
Happy b’day, Aana!
Okay Aana Minhaz. I don’t know about you. But your b’day is such a special day for me. This year especially. I fell into several nostalgic rabbit holes of your am3 clicks and emails and college pictures and I realize I had forgotten so much of it. I remember the feeling of it though and…
Travel
There was a phase in our lives when travelling was our lifeline. It was rare and almost unheard of to go more than a month without fitting a trip in it. The time in between trips would be spent planning out destinations for the next one. The standing joke among our friends was that we…