Journal of A Wife by Anais Nin

“…and of all the things he dared to do, the most dangerous for the well-being of their marriage was to encourage Anais to be herself.”Preface by J. Nin, Journal of a Wife
Hussy brought me a book to read in sick bed. A book I’m enjoying so thouroughly an completely that I never want it to [...]

two mariams, two takes

past few days have been testing, bad, ill ones for me.the two mariams with different spellings both came to the hospital.one brought me red flowers, one pink. one got bounty, one ferrero rocher.both know me very very well.
one said, “falling ill gives your friends and people who care a chance to show you how much [...]

grown-up tests of life.

Grown-ups can be so wonderful. No matter what you are going through in life, and they will have been through it already.
It’s so awesome (and i mean it in the AWESOME sense of the word) that K and I are just beginning our journey. My mind reels at all that we still have left ahead [...]

how you eat and live.

Hussy once told me, with all the authority of a true Cosmo fan, that how men eat is a giveaway to how they are in bed. I found that bit of trivia immensely enjoyable and for the next few days if we saw a friend eating particularly unusually, the two of us would burst into [...]

Trips are always significant I feel. They give you…

Trips are always significant I feel. They give you a chance to reflect, rethink, resolve and eventually reposition any stance on life you might be contemplating at that moment. Even an annual college trip to Hyderabad can suddenly turn meaningful with the right amount of intro-extro-spective people on it, and while being drawn into the [...]

suraj-mukhi

Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. Luther Burbank (1849 – 1926) US naturalist, plant breeder

who are you gonna call?

When it’s that time of the year (work-wise November usually) and you are in an UGH mood, the one victim who comes to mind is the poor sod who agreed to be with you for better or worse, in richer or poorer and in sickness and in health. These days, k is learning the other [...]