Monthly Archives: July 2010

Summer Holidays

.. are a good time to impart my grandfather’s wisdom to a seven year old who has cranked the whine waay up to “BUT I’M BORED!!” “Then you need to be getting more creative, developing a richer inner life.” “Whats … Continue reading

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A Rose By Any Other Name..

..is still a rose, but 10 years ago, it could have been an orchid and I would not have given a damn either way. I particularly hated roses since they represented every single stale romantic cliché in the book and … Continue reading

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The End

It wasn’t more than a pause. A heartbeat of an answer that would not form itself as syllables, words. It was a moment of stark and poetic honesty. It was the moment we were pronounced dead.

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Melt Report

Last Friday, I trundled into Armaan’s daycare to pick him up and my self-proclaimed Angen Fnuff  (Angel Fluff) flung himself off the swing and into my arms with the velocity that is solely reserved for little boys made of shiny, … Continue reading

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