Guest Post by Piper, the toffee colored Dacshund Address : The Phoenix House N.C.R., India           Yes that is me, with MY LITTLE MOM, as opposed to the old woman who does not allow me to kiss her face, The Big Fat Momma, and the other dude’s  my foster brother Baron.  We’re [...]

There was this young girl, skinny as hell, walking around with a permanent cold (sickly actually), an introvert who preferred reading books to interacting with boys who tried to feel up more endowed girls other social creatures. The girl then discovered food, and started getting comfortable with food and herself …. and more comfortable ……. And more comfortable [...]

A big HAPPY DIWALI from the Phoenix Home Wont post the pic of the “AFTER DIWALI BASH” Some pics of the much maligned candles and toran from the Phoenix House DIL WAITING FOR THE MOON ON KARVA CHOUTH

(I think this describes the situation in most households around Diwali/Pooja/Christmas etc. ….) Early morning Lady of the House picks up the newspaper, discards everything apart from the pages advertising Sales, Schemes etc etc and either gets on the phone with her friends or starts planning the route to be taken with her sister/daughter etc. [...]

I always wondered how root beer tasted and what pot roast was when I read Enid Blyton as a kid …. I also wondered how people could live in the countryside and have electricity, functioning shops and their kids could take pangas with local cops like Mr. Goon …. cant imagine this in the Indian [...]

I am very ambivalent about karva chowth and I wrote a post last year stating my reasons which readers found hilarious.  Well I am like that anyways …. My kids want to celebrate each and every festival with gusto, even the all female ones like karva chowth. I would doll up, do the mehendi, new dress [...]

(Thanks Taposh!) Moonlings are petrified   Top Moon officials are running scared, The President of the planet Moon Called a High Alert meeting at noon To tell the cabinet members “Beware”   These aliens are singing a dangerous tune Once they called sweethearts fair as moon Then they said they landed a man on our [...]