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…
Tag: Ramble
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…