The parenting paradox

The weeks leading to delivery are a paradox of time. You spend minutes listening to the sound of your breath, perplexed by the weight of your steps, watching your weight, too- no pun intended. Minutes that stay. You kill hours awash in curiosity- about your little human and life after them. It’s your first time.…

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Finding me more

Accepting reality means that you make the conscious choice to come to terms with reality for what it is, not by the memory of what you were before, and not by the dream of who you will be in the future...

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When the tide gets high

Where to start? At 28 we get married, at 29 get our first child and at 30 we welcome twins. Wait, got pregnant again at 30 with twins or delivered them at 30? Haha, delivered them. I was that breastfeeding Mom still figuring out how to handle a baby then boom, pregnant again. And just…

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A day in time…

*** It started on one fine evening in the beginning of time; when the clock stood still for a moment and it occurred to me that this was THE one. He ticked every box (at least then) and it was clear in my head that this was the ‘IT’. Over the next many months, I…

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A chance to life…

I would not want to be the Covid survivor next door giving people sleepless nights by endlessly retelling the chilling story of how scary the experience was and how I saw death glaring at me! Or the person who entirely centres conversations on facts of how deadly the disease is or how delicate the times that we are living in are.

I just want people to acknowledge these two facts simultaneously: that Covid is real and serious, and that being vaccinated is a simple and effective countermeasure.

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Mental health

What is mental health? In layman’s language, mental health is ‘that’ which defines whether our minds are in a dark place or at a good place. It follows, therefore, that our mental health status determines how we think, feel and act; and to a large extent, impacts how we handle stress, relate to others, and…

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Lessons from Covid times

It still catches me by surprise that you found us worthy of being part of the generation that will live to tell the unadulterated tale of your time. Remember how it started? It was fear at first ear-hear. And rightfully so because ours was a troubled house. Locusts were upon us and doctors and nurses…

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5 Little laws

It occurred to me that in marriage, there were laws beneath that had passed unnoticed; and laws that would never have made sense (in theory) because we have to live through them to comprehend…Here’s to both. The little law of flight landing This little law states that you can never land so smoothly that you…

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Circles

The days are long, but the years are short! For some daft reason, I will start with an apology for ghosting you readers for most part of the year gone. Indeed, the days were long (extraordinaire); and before we knew it, the year gone. But was it that short? Mathematically speaking, 2020 lasted approximately 24…

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