The Swami’s Visit

October 27 1 Comment Category: Personal

Quite often, what we mistake for our earliest memories are in fact our fathers’ first camcorder outings. So I won’t claim this as my own, but I do remember seeing, at least, a home video of a man known to my family as simply… the Swami.
The Swami, which is an honorific title, is a holy [...]

Coconut Boy

February 02 0 Comments Category: Personal

While other mums worry about their sons turning to drugs, getting their girlfriends pregnant or joining some sort of gang, mine is concerned with matters more spiritual. (Besides, I don’t have a girlfriend, I’m a responsible member of an online community and I just turned down a line of coke because I had a “terrible [...]