Tag Archives: life
Being Dad: A Surreal Parisian Open Doors Experience
Living in the City of Lights has its ups and downs and a large share of surreal moments – particularly when dealing with any portion of the French administration. Saturday, the various municipal centres for sports (besides the city pools … Continue reading
Book Review: American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)
It is getting exceedingly rare to find books that are well-written and yet hard-hitting and surprising at nearly every turn. Usually, you get just one (like the nearly unreadable Infinite Jest that I can still not get through) or the … Continue reading
TV Series: Magic City S01 – Part 2, Comparing Miami of the 50s to Miami of the 70s and Miami now
As a follow-up to my post about Magic City, I wanted to share a little bit more about my memories of growing up in Miami in the 70s and 80s and compare them to the Miami of the late 50s … Continue reading
Quitting Smoking: Causes of Addiction and Some Advice
I quit smoking for the third time nearly 18 days ago. I wrote back in January about starting smoking again. A BIG THANK YOU GOING OUT TO ALL MY WELL-WISHERS ON FACEBOOK – YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! Well, having built … Continue reading
An annoyance…and a small victory :)
I am in a bit of a crap mood of late. Perhaps it is the rainy debut to spring or something. Do you ever want to destroy your washing machine? Mine makes this incredibly annoying screechy BEEEEEP BEEEEEP when the … Continue reading
Season Beginnings: Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Hell on Wheels
Both Mad Men and Game of Thrones just recently kicked off again. I am still sad to have to wait nearly a year to see how things turn out for Hank of Californication, Raylan of Justified, and Marty of House … Continue reading
Mythology and Modern Life, Part 2 – Ganesha
Since my mom asked, here is my abridged and blatantly western version of the Ganesha story. It is the one that my colleagues debated in the car in Bangalore traffic on the way into the HP office a few work-lifetimes … Continue reading
The Serpent’s Tail – and more thoughts on teaching
While sitting in traffic this morning, I thought a bit on the absurdity on modern life. Just sitting in traffic in a car seems absurd when I think of all the more productive things I could be doing. But worse, … Continue reading
Dread and Loathing -or- bad things come in threes
I was thinking about the difference between fear and dread. I think fear is suspecting something bad is going to happen, whereas dread is knowing it will. Right now, I am dreading tax season like I do every year. As … Continue reading
