I’m six months into being a mother of three. My son is now four years old, and my twin baby girls are six months old. I won’t lie, it hasn’t been easy. Not because much of the work is double the amount (diapers, soiled clothes, spoon feeding, etc.) but because I find it difficult toContinue reading “On happiness, parenting, and ambition”
Category Archives: On Life
When it all happens at once
I’m sure I’m not the first to observe that life is sinuous like the graceful wave of the sine function. There are phases when nothing happens, and then circumstances tilt to fill our lives with more than what we thought we could handle. The funny thing is, we usually can manage. Not that it’s easy.
Busy dreaming or busy living?
I have had the pleasure and honor to be longlisted for Novel Fair 2018 organized by the Irish Writers Centre. This means that my entry—the first 10 000 words of my fantasy trilogy Illumination—was among the top 10 % of nearly 250 submissions. And I’ll get my work critiqued. I won’t deny it, this feels good.Continue reading “Busy dreaming or busy living?”
The muck on our lenses
When I was a kid of perhaps five or six, I had this recurring longing to be able to get out of my head and experience the world through the eyes of somebody else. When strangers walked by me on the street, I would look at their faces, stare at their eyes, and wonder whatContinue reading “The muck on our lenses”
Finding balance in life is not a balancing act
There has been a lot of hype around the concept of finding balance in life: work-life balance, balancing social life vs me-time, balance in parenting…you name it. Recently, I listened to an interview with children’s books author and illustrator Lori Richmond (whose work is lovely, by the way) and she said something that really jarred me. SheContinue reading “Finding balance in life is not a balancing act”
Turn the other cheek. Really?
Something happened to me a couple of weeks ago: one of these small occurrences which at a second glance has the depth of changing one’s perspective on life. As I was taking a turn on my bike, I collided with another bicyclist. Thankfully, it was a minor collision as we both managed to break inContinue reading “Turn the other cheek. Really?”
No longer hiding behind clutter
In the past few weeks, I happened to travel to various workshops. This reminded me of how much I like to sometimes be away from home. But really, why do people enjoy going away for a while? My husband and I have built a happy, peaceful home, so in my case family troubles are notContinue reading “No longer hiding behind clutter”
Keep learning, live long, live well
When I read Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, one specific detail took my deepest attention. Clarke describes (no spoilers here), in his riveting way, how astronaut David Bowman’s day on the spaceship Discovery was scheduled, and specifically states that two hours of the “day” were allotted to studying. At this point, I rememberContinue reading “Keep learning, live long, live well”
Is it a weakness to chase a dream and the discipline of free choice
“The Offering […] requires discipline, not the discipline of slavery, but the discipline of free choice.” – Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra. Let me put into context what Paulo Coelho means in the above quote. As I understand it, he talks about the discipline to freely take the choice to love our job evenContinue reading “Is it a weakness to chase a dream and the discipline of free choice”
A bad habit called stress
It’s difficult to lose the habit of being stressed out. This is one thing I’m beginning to learn. I quit my job at the beginning because, after years and years of denial, I finally accepted that research is not my path. I imagined, as I geared up to tell my superior about my decision, thatContinue reading “A bad habit called stress”
