cooking with kIdS

After dinner with the family, the kitchen beckoned my company and I cheerfully obliged. I asked my 5-year-old nephew Robyn if he wanted cookies and with a wide grin, he said yes. With the ingredients for oatmeal choco chip cookies laid out on the kitchen counter, I was ready to cook. But before I cracked [...]

Constant

I’ve never been good at Math. If I remember correctly, I flunked a couple of HS subjects that necessitated me doing computations of any kind. Let’s see…Trigonometry (or was it Algebra?). Statistics. And oh, yes the other one was a Science subject that needed a bit of Math, Chemistry. I unfortunately lost precious summer hours [...]

(The Return) More Wishes for the New Year*

It’s 12:05 and nothing can drown out the noise of New Year celebration this side of the world. While people are now virtually burning their money with firecrackers and fireworks they bought, scraping yet another hole in the Ozone layer (Correct me if I’m wrong, Al Gore), I try to pass this changing of the [...]

Borrowing lines from CS Lewis

True love makes a man want, not a woman, but one particular woman—the beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to [...]