Lashes and eyes Last night I woke up to the noise of my windows jangling, the mild but annoying collisions between the jambs (the vertical part) and the sill. I tried to fasten the latch, but the noise didn’t quite stop. …

Today my afternoon practice is evening practice because I was running late. Sleep late, wake late, late, late. Starting my day an hour earlier than usual has made me a more bearable person. There are fewer cars on the road. Fewer people in the office. And a feeling of superiority…

why have you surrounded yourself with so many small people? So much of our life is about navigating through relationships of all kinds. As the core of any relationship navigation is forgiveness and as I get older, I realise that it is also forgetfulness. To forget, to begin again, to…

No, not existential. February is my favorite part of the year. I know so many of my likes and dislikes now. I have a fair idea of who I am. When I am vulnerable, which is a lot more often now, I even open up honestly about my strengths and…

It’s not just another day As we get older, it becomes very fashionable to be nonchalant about birthdays. Ah, the gleaming maturity of feigning unconcern about the day you were born. How adult of us. “Why do people even celebrate birthdays? It’s not even an achievement.” But it is. Birthdays…

Please eat. More. MORE. MOOOREEE. Every time my family (my dad) invites guests over, the expectation is always to be on our best behaviours, bring out the most delectable food our kitchen can produce (which, to be honest, is not that delectable since I live with my grandparents, and they…

You are not grand. You are an idiot. Every winter morning begs the answer to the question, “Do I really need to get up?” The answer is always a striking no but I still do and go about doing usual things with extra clothing pretending it’s still summer but it…

Operations, systems, and communication in Business I am going to cut the crap on researched stuff from Wordle. The one-word-a-day method of wordle has allowed my family to stick with this game for almost a year now. We post our scores on the family group regularly and we also get…

When did it get so tasty I have never written anything too romantic directly for you partly because I don’t think you’re the kind who would appreciate it too much (or even read it for that matter) and partly because I know you wouldn’t write for me. It bothers me…