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Sick Day Parenting Rules

Kuttyma is sick. She has an ear infection and is running a temperature. Today is the second day I have kept her away from school. She is cranky, moody and out of sorts when she has temperature. Then she gets bored and starts whining when the medicine kicks in and her fever reduces. She refuses Continue reading

0 February 19, 2016 by Vinitha 2 Comments

Library

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

Delicious! is not a book filled with recipes. It has one recipe for a gingerbread cake with orange zest and cinnamon and such. It is at the very end of the book with numerous references along the way. This is the first outing for Ruth Reichl as a novelist and it wasn’t a very impressive Continue reading

0 February 17, 2016 by Vinitha 3 Comments

Family Room Writings

Flashback

“Why do you write?” has been a question thrown at me often. I started writing mostly as a way to deal with my emotions. I was drowning in them as I tried to deal with the grief of losing my grandfather. I wrote on paper and floated them on rivers. I balled my words and threw them Continue reading

0 February 16, 2016 by Vinitha Leave a comment