Category: Personal
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76/365 My space in a Maze
There are feelings that are tough to explain in words. I have such incidents at times. It is weird but I will try to explain it here. or attempt to put it in words. There are certain parts of my life that is more like a maze and I sometimes wonder where my space in…
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57/365 When School started again
This is a Parent’s chronicle. You want to read my son’s narrative you can go to his blog and read 44/365 My first day of school After one and a half years I had to suddenly find 1 hour of time that did not exist in my schedule. And that too in the morning. So…
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55/365 Two things that my son wrote
First let me give you some background. A few years back I did a writing project with my daughter. Every day I would give her a question and she would write me an answer. She was 14 back then. We continued that for a year… yes 365 days. This was a big learning experience for…
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53/365 A Ritual for initiating a change
Change is always an interesting topic for me, may be because we talk about it a lot in our agile world. But the change I wanted to talk today is about personal change. It is true that on a personal level change happens always. Some knowingly and some unknowingly. And at other times we have…
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47/365 A change in my exercise Routine and why
So I have made a change in routine. I am not sure if I have mentioned before that my morning routine starts with a 2.5 miles brisk walk followed by my coffee and writing this post. I do another 2.5 miles during lunch time that helps me clock 5 miles and 10000 steps daily. I…
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46/365 When it felt like old times again
Yesterday we were invited to a small gathering.. a party to be precise… after over 1.5 years this is the first house visit in a way… no we did go to our cousin’s place for a birthday party… But this was the one in which it felt like old times for a while.. Amazing hosts..…
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42/365 In a Cinema theater after so long
And finally after more than a year and a half, I had a chance to go to the movie theaters. They opened last month. In fact I had not planned but something happened. So I have this monthly pass for 24 dollars or so that allows me to see 3 movies every week in the…
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41/365 Good Shoes means better Walking
This is not an advertisement for shoes. It is just an experience I had that I want to share. I walk on a daily basis. More in the recent one year than before. And the habit of listening to podcasts also helps in walking. That does not mean I don’t have days I don’t do…
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40/365 A short road trip after a long time
After almost one and a half year of not traveling we made a short trip to Oregon. Not in flight though We took the road and stayed in the small University town of Eugene a couple hours before reaching Portland. We drove to Portland one of the days. it was pretty hot and we also…
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16/365 Changing the Genre I am reading
My reading over the past year and a half has been all Non fiction. May be I did read one or two novels in malayalam. I have been mostly reading on social sciences, economics, anthropology, Tech and Business, Data and so on. And to be honest while it was fun, I am slowly getting overwhelmed…
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