A Song for the Road
I stopped in Springfield to meet my sister and her family. This is Mary’s husband Tom and his amazing 90 year old mother Jeanne Synan. Tom was busy playing a little Beethoven on his ukelele and Mrs Synan was egging him on.
America
I love arriving in America – especially when I am “received” at the airport by family. Ravi’s sister and brother were there to meet me when I arrived at the ungodly hour of midnight, and it was cold and raining too! We didn’t get home until after two – Nutan promptly fixed me a huge […]
Long Time!
Hello everyone! Just a quick note to let you know why I have been so silent. I am in the US visiting with my parents (as well as with Anand and Cathleen, my six brothers and sisters, rafts of nieces and nephews and many wonderful friends!). The problem is the internet! I have finally borrowed […]
Kanwarjit Chawla: Chance Encounter on a Railway Platform
Kanwarjit Chawla is one of our family’s oldest and dearest friends. He is Moy Moy’s Godfather and has been an adviser to the Foundation since the day we started. Yesterday, I took the train from Dehradun to Delhi – I was just about to board when I saw Dr K coming down the platform, looking […]
Karuna Vihar Calendar 2009
Time to put on your thinking caps! I know it’s only April, and that 2009 is still a long way off, but this is about the time when we traditionally start thinking about next year’s calendar. It’s quite a process. First, we need a theme. Then we start searching for the perfect quotes and poems. […]
Another Birthday Girl!
Shaila worked at the Foundation for several years – even continuing for a year as Networking Coordinator after moving to Delhi because we couldn’t bear to let her go and she couldn’t bear to leave. But all good things come to an end (they say – whoever THEY are) and Shaila moved to Chennai and […]
The Little Schemer
Now does this look like a young lady so sick her mother had to postpone her trip to America? All of last week Moy Moy kept me in a state of anxiety. She had started having a new type of seizure, and was sleeping massively: up to 20 hours a day. Sebastian made frequent house […]
The Zen of Ensure
Here’s my Number One Guru. The other day I was chatting with a friend and I quoted Ravi. She rolled her eyes. “Do I do that a lot?” I asked. She laughed. I guess I do. But look at that face, those eyes! It’s hard not to see that he has a special way of […]
Caregivers
Here’s the team from the Caregivers’ Course we’ve been running at the training centre for the last few weeks. It was Sebastian’s turn to teach and the subject was blood pressure and how to measure it. Everybody loved giving it a try, but Ramesh seemed especially excited! Naina, on the other hand, was the soul […]
Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday, Tara!