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Afraid to accept the good
Today, I finally did it! I got up early, not at 5am, but at 7am, which was good enough. After a month of struggling to get up at 5am, I…
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Growing Older, Growing Wiser... or Just Giving Up?
In the past, every year around Diwali, I would write posts about the dangers of fireworks. About the damage they cause to the environment, the pollution they add to the…
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The 5 am club - admission denied!
(This was a blog post I had written in 2020. It had got lost in one of my many notebooks. Today when I was decluttering my writing, I found it…
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When my students find their wings.
I opened my inbox this morning and screamed with joy. (Yes, I’m very emotional like that; especially where my students are concerned.) Priyanka, Arshvir’s mother, had written to tell me…
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Courage to look within
I sit at the poolside. The silence is at the same time quiet and loud. Externally quiet, just the sound of water gently trickling down somewhere, the cicadas softly chirping,…
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A 60 year old friendship
The prompt was to write about a person I have felt really connected with. This is the story of a friendship spanning almost 60 years. It was my very first…
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