We have a sweet, small garden. A few days ago, our mali left four baby eggplant at the kitchen door. They were so shiny and beautiful, I couldn’t bear to cook them. The next day, he plucked this little pumpkin (its vine had twined itself [...]

The average age in our house is 68. At 51, I am one of the kids, and like most people, I think I am even younger. Also like most people, I’m not. As much as I would like to believe I haven’t aged or changed or been in any way [...]

Don’t you wish you had an Invisibility Cloak like Harry Potter’s? I would give a lot to be able to hear just what people are saying sometimes.This little duo, for example. The girl looks concerned. She’s listening intently. Her [...]

Just about everything reminds me of something, but a fragrance has more memory power than almost anything I know. I was walking past a house in Vasant Vihar one morning last week – just for a recent example. The doors were all open and the [...]

This morning I got Moy Moy dressed as usual – nothing special or different except for this: as I buttoned her jeans, for some reason it struck me to put my hands in her pockets. When I did, I found they were all crumpled up – you [...]

A few weeks ago, I told the story of Moy Moy’s mysterious weight gain. After some clever detective work, we decided it was due to her seizures finally getting under control and we gave full marks to Dr Sebastian for the transformation. Moy [...]

This morning while walking to the store, a young woman on a motorbike passed me, wobbling and weaving. I glanced up sharply and saw she had her head down and was TEXTING. “Are you crazy?” I shouted at her back. She turned her head, [...]