“So, you work at a job that essentially takes away your own job?”, said the son.This is the kind of meta stuff that he finds exciting. The Thanksgiving week-end was rife with conversations about the corporate drama that in yester years could be equated to the coups of thrones. Would the CEO go? Would the … Continue reading “The Past, Present and Future of Jobs”
A version of this post, The Colour Blue, appeared in The Hindu dated 30th January. I had written in an earlier post about how the daughters room looked like the Flying Zoos of Babylon. It was time for a radical change. Multiple trips to the hardware store had yielded one decision: the room was to be … Continue reading “The Mute Painter”
Recently, I found myself reading a travel magazine that highlighted the delights of San Francisco. San Francisco is one of those delightful cities that has so much to offer the free soul. I pored over the food options like a snooty gourmet, and realized that the thing to do was to catalog all the ingredients … Continue reading “Paada The Fashion Tycoon”
As an immigrant to the United States, there are things I will always cherish. Lovable quirks such as “Water no ice please” or “Aww..”. Things like different reading fare is marvelous. Growing up in the misty mountain valleys of South India, we had access to good children’s books, and I relished every moment spent with … Continue reading “Nose in Books & Feet in Socks”
Mr Dawdles and Ms Riviera Robinson had wonderful holiday seasons. Ms Riviera Robinson had a stylized, personal seamstress to sew her clothes for the Yule-Tide Ball. She wore a pretty blue gown with pale blue flowers. The straps made of satin were most becoming on her brown shoulders and the blue proved to be a … Continue reading “Yule-Tide with Ms Riviera Robinson & Mr Dawdles”
Every time I step aboard a flight, I admire the space utilization measures the flight designers have taken. I am not sure that aero-dynamic designs appeal to me as much as the food trolley cart design or the way those trolleys slide neatly into closets designed for fitting one. If it was possible for a … Continue reading “Never awaken a sleeping tiger cub…”
Qn: What ties a unicorn and a book together? Ans: A tie Ten years is a short time. Seems only yesterday that I met the man I love and gave him my first useless material gift. (The gift of my gab he still enjoys.) A decade later, we have managed to fill our lives up … Continue reading “What ties a Unicorn & a Book together?”
I stopped short in my tracks as I headed into my workspot the other day. There she was – shopping around again in the same stores as I have! And, she has to buy the same colour too! So, there we were looking like 2 peas in a pod, while folks gleefully took note and … Continue reading “Peas in a Pod”
In the pre-digital era, the more useless pictures in our album at home were usually attributed to me. There you see my then kid brother measuring 4ft 3inches looking a grand 6 ft 4 inches, and somewhere else a touch of scenery gone all awry when taken from the moving train. From then on, I … Continue reading “Some things never change”
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