Tag: Family
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Healthy Eating for Happy Life
One evening about a decade back, my father had a heart attack. Fortunately our neighbor took him to the hospital in Chennai within 20 minutes (within the golden hour). My father received angioplasty with stem implant to cure his condition. Since then my father has been on stricter diet and medications. This was a wake…
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Book: “Grit” – encourages one to persist and persevere
Often I carry books to read in the flight. But this Monday I did not have any book to read. And there was a 5 hour flight ahead of me. Browsing through the stores, I found this book – Grit. It was compact and encouraging. I was thinking through challenges my son had to go through…
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Book: “Night” – terrifying, insightful, and hopeful
One teenager amongst a few millions faced challenging times in 1944-1945. Unprepared for, he was. He had to endure challenging period of his life living in crowded place, with inadequate food and water, surrounded with winter with inadequate clothing and shelter, and often live in darkness. He survived this all in the internment camps during…
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Learning through games – Chess and such
A recent article about family game nights in The Atlantic emphasized the importance of games. In this summer there were days we got together as a family and played a variety of indoor games besides some outdoor games. There were two themes that emerged. Rules Driven Games encouraged discipline. Games like Chess, monopoly, cards, Set,…
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Build a house and you learn a lot …
In my mother tongue – Tamil – there is a saying: “ஒரு வீட்டை கட்டிப் பார்; ஒரு கல்யாணம் ப்ண்ணிப் பார்” meaning, “Build a house; conduct a wedding” to learn more. Everyone lives almost half their lives in their houses, so let us make it great. A few years back a dream to build a house entered our minds. We…
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Getting ready for my longest bike ride
About 10 days back, one of my friends casually (actually strongly) suggested that I ought to do a bike ride with them for their planned Seattle to Portland (aka STP) ride. Every possible excuse came out of my mouth: “oh no, I cannot. I do not have the time. I am not ready. Too Tough. …”. He…
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Staying Creative Always
Today I ran into this article on How to find time for creative work. It was well written. The author of the article talks about how he had prioritized time to ensure he can do his creative work – writing – done. In many ways this is applicable for many of us. I write occasionally…
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Fitness and Togetherness – thanks to Girls on The Run
A few weeks back, my 11 year old daughter came home with a form requesting us to sign and acknowledge that she can join the Girls on The Run. At first I was surprised when I read that 4th and 5th grade girls are going to attempt a 5K run. I do not recall attempting a 5K…