My visit to Edmonton – ***revised posting! I left Toronto with Sunita on the night of my convocation to attend a two and a half day workshop in Edmonton on sustainability and curriculum design. The workshop was a very good learning and networking opportunity for all who attended. But the best part of the whole […]

Phew! What a busy few weeks! SO! Lots has happened in the last few weeks that I have barely had time to sleep, let alone write. I have been feeling rather guilty for not writing,t hen I consoled myself that no one probably reads the blog. Just when I got comfortable with that thought, I […]

Made my 20th KIVA loan  I posted previously about KIVA but I’m doing so again. I just made my 20th one yesterday. I started with a $125 Christmas present in 2010 from Sharm, Sunita, Subhadra and Sophie and I added $75 a few months later.  As you can see, 6 of them are completely repaid, 10 are […]

My baby robins Today I climbed up on the ladder at my back light and saw the three baby robin in the nest. A few weeks ago the parents were busy building the nest and by the time Hana and Breen came over, there were three beautiful turquoise coloured eggs. Now the babies are so big […]

Checked on my baby bunnies today… and it looks like some kind of prey decapitated the heads of three of them. It was so sad to see their little bodies laying there on the dirt. I was afraid that this would happen because they are not sheltered at all. It’s quite disturbing although I suppose […]

Happy Mother’s Day To all those mothers who worked tirelessly to raise their families and for all those men who take care of their children as a mother would do. Here is a beautiful mother’s day present for me. Robin was forking the garden a few days ago and as he plunged his fork into […]

Dad’s one year pooja completed Today we had the one year memorial service for Dad’s passing. It was very small but the pandit did a good job of it. He is far different from the previous pandit – very respectful. the collage of pictures is courtesy of Sophie. Pinda, kund with fire, flowers The first […]

Happy birthday Robin, Today Robin celebrated his 65th birthday. That sounds really old but by the picture below, you can see that he still looks like 6 plus 5 rather than 65. Robin looking like 6 + 5 Robin, Hana, Sabreena Sandra  Related posts:

Busy last week and equally busy weekend I thought when I finally submitted my dissertation I would have stacks of free time to do whatever I want but last week it was a busy week and by Friday evening after facilitating a day-long workshop, I was pretty mentally and physically exhausted. On the weekend there […]

The universe works in mysterious ways You know how we always seem to hear that the universe works in mysterious ways? Well today I think I have proof that it’s true. If you have been following my blog, then you know that I had my dissertation exam two weeks ago. Since that time, I’ve had […]