30 in 2005

This morning V and I went back to Mama’s San Francisco, a breakfast joint on the corner of Washington Square (Filbert and Stockton). The l...

I’m such a lucky girl. It was my mums 70th birthday last week and I got to go to Delhi and spend a few days with her and my dad. The othe...

Like many I am fascinated by Planet Earth style programs. Watching a pod of dolphins frolick or snow leopards in the wild, they have m...

If I ever ask my friend M to join me for lunch because I’m headed ‘into town’ she laughs and asks what I need at IKEA. For as long as we h...

I was achey and nauseous before the flight and so V, who was given an impromptu upgrade at the check-in counter, offered to swap seats wit...

What a first day! Sat at the airport now waiting for our flight back.  Last night we hung out at V’s brothers home in Mumbai eating In...

These are snippets I wrote on my phone and in my Filofax this year. Hurried, sometimes awful scribbles. Here they are in no particular ord...

It has become obvious that having one child means I have a clean house, a perfect child with perfect manners, perfection in every way, ti...

In the midst of our daily joys - the celebration of birthdays, the winning of sports, the reunion of families - there are large griefs. Th...

The rhythm of the school week and it’s many activities changes a bit every year but usually settles into a satisfying pattern by this poin...

School opened 5 weeks ago and I had every intention of writing this as soon as he climbed that bus on day 1. My child is in the 4th grade....

It’s one of two things. Either we are at the point in an expat cycle where people are finishing their 2 or 3 year stint and moving. Or it’...

As an Indian schoolgirl in the 80s the project that most made an impression on me was the study of the Masai people. I’m not even sure why...

This week we are in Kenya. A few days in the foothills of the Ngong Hills of Nairobi, home to the coffee plantations of Karen Blixen and s...

When I first moved here I went to a very specific part of Kowloon to look at the recommended Indian grocers. Since that first trip I have ...

Since we got back just after the new year I’ve been pottering around the house at a snails pace. And in a way it’s been good to not go rus...

Back from another whirlwind India trip. Not sure why I am a glutton for punishment and just push through telling myself ‘it will be fine, ...

It’s been an awesome few months of keeping myself occupied doing not very much. Not sure how to explain that other than to say I’ve been b...

It is so very interesting that after that post about cutting someone out a bunch of people have got in touch. Actually more than a bunch -...

I’ve been awake since 4am with my stuffy nose so took myself and a box of tissues to the guest room with its fluffy pillows and big window...

Woke up with a vile cold and a light fever. And of course my aching knees. Look and feel pretty wretched. Falling apart at 42; I thought I...