Jo’s Blog

This is a story about a squeaky gate. Every day I walk back and forth to my office at least four times. I go in to work in the morning, I go home for lunch, I go back to the office in the afternoon and I go home in the evening. Sometimes I [...]

Everybody is important and everybody has a name. Ourselves, of course. So obvious. We all know our own names and it’s hard to imagine that others can forget them. Especially if that other person is their boss. Bosses hold a special [...]

For some kids, talking is hard, if not impossible. Sakshi’s cerebral palsy has given her a range of distinctive movements and she has difficulty getting words out. But while talking is tough, thinking is not. Sakshi is a bright, articulate [...]

Last year, we got a call from the Chief Minister’s office, informing us that on the occasion of his birthday, the CM wished to donate wheelchairs to our children. Since these events are usually just glorified disabled photo-ops, we were [...]

Everything reminds me of Moy Moy these days and the separation her death has imposed in our lives. So when W S Merwin died on March 15, I remembered his poem: Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I [...]

“Looking forward to your response.”  How many times have you ended an important – even urgent – letter with this phrase?  You’ve written to a potential donor or you are trying to set up a meeting with a busy [...]

Children remember magic moments from their childhoods without necessarily remembering the circumstances that created them. Events, secrets and experiences live on mysteriously and half-understood in their memories, often forever – without [...]