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in 2016

In Print After Ages

Back in the day, when I was a true-blooded Malayalee nee "Susen George," I worked with newspapers. I had little choice but to churn out articles for the publications every week. Some 12 years, one hubby and two kidlings later, seeing my name in the byline of a print article has become as common as spotting ...

A Whiff Of Christmas In Prague

Bundled up in wool hats, scarves, mittens, and about two kilos of extra weight in clothes (and admittedly a "few" added grams from the cheese we've been consuming) we wind our way through the woods behind the 12th-century Strahov monastery. I think of Robert Frost's famous lines, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep." Like ...

5 Fun Memories To Create With Your Kids This Christmas

“Have a holly jolly Christmas, It’s the best time of the year,” goes a song on the radio. Sometimes, though, with the hustle and the craziness that the season brings, it’s the most stressful time of the year too. Our lists are never ending and it’s impossible get the to-do’s crossed off as the kids ...

Empty Boxes

Growing up in the 90’s in India, I have many fond memories of Christmas. It was about carol singing into the wee hours of the morning. It was about platefuls of steaming biriyani and brightly coloured paper stars that hung outside homes. It was about homemade plum cake heavy with fruit soaked in alcohol that ...

Making Space – Advent Devotional

Christmas – along it being the most wonderful time of the year, it tends to be the busiest. This Christmas, let’s clear the clutter to make space for Christ. These Advent devotionals, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas, are a small way we can focus on what truly counts. Click here to ...

A Break From Busy

His name is Rubedo for the melding of colours on his coat. A brown, which is not quite brown. Not quite earth or rust either. A mix of gold and copper and zinc – at least, that’s the online definition of the alloy Rubedo. Evidently, Tiffany & Co launched an entire jewellery line in the ...

Where You Believe You Belong

When Disney teams up with ESPN you expect a feel-good movie about a sport star. Maybe a baseball movie about the kid from the inner city who ends up playing in the major leagues. Or maybe you expect a basketball flick about ... pretty much the same thing. What you don’t quite expect is a movie ...

Under the Cover of Grace

Every afternoon, on my way to pick my kids from school, I pass by a somewhat dismal, two-storey building with a bright blue roof. It has the word GRACE boldly painted across the entrance. Now, let’s play a little game: If you had to guess, what would you say was inside the building? Let me give you ...

When You Don’t Do It All

Not too long ago, I would tune into “Chopped” on Food Network almost every evening. I loved the outlandish ingredients that were pulled out of the mystery basket (Durian and sheep’s hooves, anyone?) and the chefs with their unbelievable knife skills and risotto-making super powers. In particular, I remember one episode. Not for its culinary wonders ...
MEET SUSAN

I love words. But you probably figured that out by now, considering this website essentially collates my words on the web. Read More…