It has taken its time, but I do believe that there is a transformation is afoot – I am slowly but surely turning into my mother… The proof is in the pickling (and the gardening). The line up of tomato kasundi and bottled fruit that I made this week from the organic dumpster cornucopia of [...]

I’m currently working on a piece that involves gall stones and while doing some research I drifted off topic in true peripatetic googler form and arrived at this beauty – the tobacco smoke enema. Apparently, a tobacco smoke enema can be used to stimulate respiration. It was originally employed in this manner by native americans [...]

The older one gets the faster time goes, or so it seems. But we are not talking about absolute time here, for how can we? We are talking about an experience of time. As the percentage of one’s life represented by a year grows smaller, so our experience of that interval of time feels shorter. [...]