She was dropping her kindergarteners off for the presentation while she had to attend a professional development workshop, and as she got the kids settled telling them repeatedly to sit on their bottoms and face forward, eyes on me, then she turned to me and said, “Good luck!” Like I was really going to need […]

And I don’t write. All I want to do is fart around in my pyjamas till it’s time to go to the meeting. The last couple of days have been busy! They were two days of presentations at a lovely school with 900 kids! So far I’ve presented to about six hundred of them! On […]

Can’t believe the last post I wrote was on that rejection I received. Man, that feels like SO long ago! To say that I’ve gained a bit of perspective would be an understatement. First of all my family was blessed with another grandchild. Alhamdu lillah, a healthy little boy, so that makes ten! Even steven, […]

What an interesting few days I’ve had. Been meaning to take note of it, but sometimes life just gets too busy. On Monday we went to the new aquarium downtown, and what a fascinating experience it is. Made me feel like a real fuddy duddy. I’ve never been that much into the latest high techie […]

to storytell to a great audience! The feeling is phenomenal! To share some of your favourite stories in a room with great ambience, to a group of about a hundred people who have voluntarily shown up on a mild Sunday, and paid what they can, to hear some good old stories! I’m talking about the […]

The biggest worry in being a ‘do gooder’ is not the risk of stopping the doing of good. It’s getting arrogant about it. Ooh, arrogance, that most insidious of faults! That creeps up on you till you really do believe you’re better than others. And in believing that, you prove that you’re not. Yeah, there’s […]

So I guess the Delhi belly phenomenon took a while to hit me, because I didn’t get it till the second last day of this whirlwind tour, here in Pune. Delhi belly is basically vomiting and diarrhea. The runs, you name it. Started with a general feeling of queasiness yesterday morning, and by the time […]

It’s such a treat to see some of the same faces I got acquainted with at Bookaroo in Delhi! And the wonderful thing is we’ve kind of gotten past that initial euphoria stage, if you know what I mean. One of the things I try very hard NOT to do is to hog a conversation. […]

Today was supposed to be an in and out trip. Came into Amritsar at about 10 am, did three major presentations and two journalist interviews, and I was supposed to be out on the 8:45 pm flight. Only it got cancelled, so I’m stuck here, and my flight leaves at 3 am, back to Delhi […]

I think it’s a few minutes past 9 pm and I’m beat. Just thinking of the schedule ahead is making me seriously reconsider my sanity in saying yes. Bangalore was amazing. Or I should say the people were amazing because I actually didn’t get to ‘see’ that much of the place. Oh, I spoke to […]