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Monthly recap: April 2016

* Big highlight: our trip to Japan (will have to write a separate post on this!) * Tara started some swimming (well, no: the two of us went into a pool twice … but it’s still something) * Attemptin…

Monthly recap: March 2016

A few miscellaneous highlights: * Prepared for a trip to Japan (more on that later) — very smooth application process. * Jogged on a treadmill for the first time in five months. * Took Tara for he…

Monthly recap: January 2017

I went back to work, and things are slowly (but strangely!) getting back to normal. I can almost walk up and down stairs, which is the last “normal” barrier. I even dropped Tara to daycare and picked…

Annual recap: 2016

(being a digest of all the monthly recap posts this year) * Started running again this year, did the San Francisco Half-Marathon * India (New Delhi, Bekal) trip in March * Wrote a trippy mini-nove…

Monthly recap: November 2016

This month was mostly about healing, with a lot of help from my wife and dad. Resumed a bit of normalcy, in terms of eating out and driving around, etc (and this was a rainy month, see the photo abov…

Monthly recap: October 2016

A lot of other stuff happened in October, but the main event turned out to be a silly accident. At some point I'll share the X-ray, but basically I had multiple fractures in my tibia/fibula. Book…

Broken leg, Part 1

Some quick facts, so that I can record this somewhere: On Thursday, I sustained multiple fractures in my left leg. A spiral fracture in the tibia, a single fracture in the fibula, and some indetermin…

Resolutions on Writing

Around 2013, I decided to try a few therapeutic writing exercises, and got hooked. Since then I’ve written a lot for fun, though almost entirely pseudonymously. I’ve written poems off and on at Hello…

Monthly Recap: September 2016

Finally made a New York trip after six years (!) and met up with a bunch of old friends (some of them after 15 years) -- and Tara went to her first zoo. Bunch of other miscellany: switched to a more…

Monthly recap: July 2016

Interesting stuff the last month: * Long weekend staycation in San Francisco (went to some place in Tiburon for lunch, and checked out the new stuff at the recently opened SF MoMA) * Hung out with…

Monthly Recap: June 2016

The major event of June was our trip to Puerta Vallarta, Mexico around the beginning of the month. Mostly lazed around, Tara had her first pizza (a Marinara veggie), and we had some fun in the pool.…