BHUTAN: Trek to the Tiger’s Nest Monastery and an Odyssey through Stillness
As I pulled the zipper runner and fastened my backpack, I mused about our time coming to an end, in Bhutan. We were bidding adieu to this wonderful country. My eyes stung, and I swallowed. I watched my...
View ArticleMilofy: Using Technology To Create Real Life Relationships
As a mom, and as a person who is not entirely into downloading apps (albeit being technologically savvy), I am quite excited when I find a useful app. I mean, I use Snapchat because I have a teenage...
View ArticleJAPAN: When the World Ends
No, this isn’t a political post, unless you consider that on some level every post written by a woman is a political post whether she intends it to be or not. This is about the apocalypse,...
View ArticleAn Interview with Victor Kannan. Part II
This is part II of the two-part interview with Victor Kannan. Part I is also on World Moms Network’s blog, and some of Mr. Kannan’s own written work can be found Here and Here. PART II: S: When you...
View ArticleINDONESIA: When Your Child Doesn’t Fit In
I still remember that day from last year. I knew something was not right when the homeroom teacher got the principal, school counselor and some other unfamiliar faces as I sat down in their office. My...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: On My 11th Anniversary
I remember my grandparent’s 50th Wedding Anniversary. I wasn’t there to celebrate it with them, but a month ahead, I found a card and wrote a long note thanking them for everything their marriage...
View ArticlePHILIPPINES: Expectation vs Reality
Expectation When I was 15, I had my whole life mapped out. I’d be married by 25. Within a couple of years, I’d have a daughter, and then a son. When I hit 30, I’d go back to school to get my Master’s...
View ArticleSINGAPORE: When your kid is done trying
If you have a kid at home, chances are you’ve probably watched Zootopia. It’s a story about how an unlikely bunny, became the first female police officer in a male dominated environment. But this is...
View ArticleINDIA: Home, Mothers and Love
A few weeks ago, I found myself rubbing a strained back, while contemplating a few dozen cardboard boxes, spilling with myriad possessions. My family and I had just shifted residence and while the...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: Heavy Backpacks and Uniforms
Kids are out on holiday for the next two weeks. Funny how it’s Easter Holidays in some places, Spring Break in others, and here it’s the Buddhist New Year. In the end it doesn’t really matter what it...
View ArticleBHUTAN: Buddha’s Final Teaching – Freedom Lies beyond Change
BHUTAN: Buddha’s Final Teaching – Freedom Lies beyond Change The great Buddha passed away two and a half millennium years ago. Under the twin sal trees, on his bed, which Ananda had made for him,...
View ArticleWhat do You do When you Chose the Wrong School?
What are you supposed to do when you can tell that the school your kids are in isn’t exactly what you’d like a school to be like? Not everyone has the luxury of just moving kids from school to school...
View ArticleINDONESIA: What I Learn From Meditating for 3 Months Straight
I had heard about meditation before. I’ve tried it several times before. I didn’t just wake up one day and say to myself “C’mon Maureen…let’s try to meditate for 3 straight months!” No, no, no!...
View ArticleINDIA: Kaleidoscope
How fast can the years rush by? Shifting images: Imagine putting your eyes to a kaleidoscope and marveling at the beauty of the image. Now, just a tiny flick of the wrist and the image shifts and...
View ArticleThe magic of a mother’s handbag
Flipping through my travel diary of some years ago, brought me to this entry. Dear reader, I, as a mother, if you have ever come face-to-face with logic-defying moments, while preparing for travel, do...
View ArticleLumbini, Nepal: Buddha’s Birthplace, What Remains Now and the Ethos of the Heart
THE BIRTH OF Siddhārtha Gautama 6th Century BC: The old nurse looked at her radiant Queen, Maya Devi. She still had the same sweet smile on her face, and nothing seemed to have changed since the day...
View ArticleGuest Post: Life of a Mother, Married to a Cop
Three Decades With a Cop Life was not easy, Life was also not bad, Life had everything, Life did lack something, Yes, this is the life of a cop’s wife! Our marriage is close to three decades now. Back...
View ArticleINDIA: State of Kerala Ravaged by Floods, Still Gasps for Survival
Heavy rain during June and July is a normal phenomenon in the state of Kerala in South India. This year, the effect of the South-West monsoon was more profound not only in Kerala but in the neighboring...
View ArticleBhutan: Dochula Pass – A Paragon of Spirituality, Bravery, and Inspiration
Another dawn, another magnificent sunrise, was gently coaxing the thin veil of fog to retreat, as we breathed in the spicy and slightly pungent scent of the cypress trees on which long ropes of prayer...
View ArticleINDIA: Robots, Go the Food Way
India, basically an agrarian economy has made great strides in various fields and especially in the field of robotics. The robots have gradually entered into sectors such as defence services,...
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