Yearly Archives

in 2018

Loving the Ordinary…

It's the man's birthday today. Since I wrote an "open letter" to the boy and the girl earlier, I figured it was the husband's turn -  also I may have run out of gift ideas. Here is an excerpt from the letter.  When I stopped to think about it, we've been on a lot of adventures together. ...

Looking Afresh At An Old Story

Maybe you’ve played an angel or a shepherd, or, if you were one of the “chosen few,” you’ve pulled off a smiling Mary holding a swaddled doll. The Sunday School re-enactment of the Nativity is a part of every Christian kid’s growing rites. Over the years, we’ve read – and re-read – the passages from the ...

Making Space – An Advent Devotional (YouVersion)

As the Christmas season begins, we usually find ourselves more stretched for time than the rest of the year. We get caught up in the frenzy – and forget to focus on what’s truly important. This devotional will help you clear the clutter so you can make more room for Christ this Christmas. Join me with ...

Whatever You Do…

I walk into the bedroom and am greeted by an unmade bed. I’ve just returned from dropping the kids off at school, after giving them breakfast and packing the husband’s lunch dabba. I take a deep breath, swallow my irritation and proceed to make the bed. Inside my head, though, a monologue begins: “365 times. That’s how many ...

30 Things I’ve Learnt in My 30s

In about two months, I’ll be celebrating my big four-oh. There’s a lot I want to get done before that. There are skills to master, habits to build, distant lands to visit and dreams to crush. But that can wait. It’s not like life is all downhill after 40. At least that’s what I keep telling ...

A Record, a Remembrance, a Reliving of His Faithfulness

“God, let my husband be the icing on the cake,” I wrote in my journal, circa 2005. It was an honest prayer of a single girl. Admittedly, it was also a superbly odd prayer. One doesn’t regularly incorporate baking metaphors in prayer and one definitely doesn’t equate a potential spouse to frosting. Yet, those were my ...

An Ode To Deliveries

I decided to wax eloquent about something I'm truly uh-mazed by: how pretty much everything gets delivered to your doorstep in Bangalore. The other day, I needed to pick up curtains from a store 20 minutes away. But I just dunzoed it. I also swiggy-ed my lunch and had my groceries delivered. That, to me, ...

Dear Fellow Moms, What Are We Trying to Prove by Doing it All?

I used to 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 superpowers. In particular, I remember one episode, not for its culinary wonders or drama, bur for a snippet ...

A Letter To My Daughter On Her 9th Birthday

Hey missy girl, When you saw that I’d written an open letter to your big brother on his ninth birthday, you were insistent I do the same for you when you turn nine. That’s you in a nutshell, isn’t it, kid? You know what you want and you go for it. Even as we’re at the halfway ...
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…