First we worried about the children's jabs, now we worry about their hijabs...

This was written exactly today, 120 years ago ( Read more... )

All this worry that we're not eating, sleeping, living right....here's a quotation that Shobitha Kedlaya cited on a wellness group I belong to, and find increasingly uncomfortable....

If only people freed themselves from their beliefs in all kinds of Ormuzds, Brahmas, Sabbaoths, and their incarnation as Krishnas and Christs, from beliefs in ( Read more... )

I was sitting in the waiting room of the eye clinic. I'd just been told that I was one of the few people who suffer complications as a result of eye surgery. My cloudy vision, I had been just informed, might, or might not, improve over the next few months, after which, the alternative was more (and possibly not effective) surgery. I was feeling ( Read more... )

Had the cataract removed from one eye (with laser surgery) today. The other eye, tomorrow. Reasonably painless procedure. Typing is automatic on my laptop keyboard...but reading is still problematic, about 7 hours after surgery, as the eye that was done still seems to have a not-very clean plastic sheet over it. The other eye was already giving ( Read more... )

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Overlooking facts and hoping for the best is a human trait....both D and A have breathing difficulties, and, indeed, A could never live far away from her inhaler, when she was in Bangalore. But of course, I was hoping that KTB would not develop any breathing issues....well, reality supervened, and they had to take her to the doctors' to help her ( Read more... )

On the cycling group that I belong to, we've been having a big debate about cycling...and dogs...rather the menace that many cyclists face from dogs. Though some of us were only advocating getting stray dogs in the city neutered, several people thought we were advocating killing the dogs, and reacted heatedly, saying that dogs have as much right to ( Read more... )

For more than a year or two, I have, at random times, had the experience of a brightly pulsating, geometric-design spiral "unfurl" within my vision field ( Read more... )

...is always fraught with difficulties. One can never really *visualize*, sitting in one set of atmospheric conditions, how cold or hot it will be in the other place. The pleasant chill of Bangalore is something I don't even consider as winter, so I tend not to pack really warm clothes at all...then I have to remind myself how it will be in the ( Read more... )