A little girl and her mother came to see me last night. “She’s got these white patches on her legs,” the Mom said, trying to sound casual. “It started with just one, but then they spread.” My heart sank. I sat down [...]

Everybody wants a job. “Jo, there’s a woman at the gate. Says she knows you. She looks like a job-seeker. What do you want me to do?” That’s my husband speaking and I am in luck because I wasn’t the one who opened [...]

Yesterday I was invited to an amazing all day workshop at a cafe in a nearby village. “Himalayan Tapestry Creative Day” was billed as a day for women to learn a wide range of crafts – quilting, card making, watercolor painting, [...]

My friend Ana of I Made It So has this wonderful weekly feature on her blog where she invites readers to dig into their blog archives and recycle a favorite old post. She provides a theme each Friday, we all get to fish around for something [...]

My friend Radhika Singh’s book on Fab-India has just been published (you can order it here). At the Dehradun launch for the book this past Sunday, people shared stories about what the shop meant to them and I found, to my surprise, that I [...]

When we first moved to Dehradun I bought groceries at a local shop, occasionally on credit. I was friendly with the shopkeeper, but we didn’t know each others’ names. One evening while making my purchases, I asked him how much I owed [...]

This is a post in which no one is going to look good, least of all me. Masiji had a fall over two weeks ago.  I took her to the hospital immediately (me being good) where an x-ray revealed that her ankle, though badly swollen, was only [...]