Celebration
Welcoming Mamma Bear.
Mamma bear returns from a 6-day trip to find little Baby bear ready ...
Insight
Same grief. Different perspectives.
I realise that there is no way to generalise grief. Indeed, to understand ...
Friendship
To Bikers’ Creed: Gratitude.
I am full of gratitude for my biking club, for having shown me ...
Parenting
The conversation.
Baba bear and Baby bear speak of relationships, choice, divorce, and how air ...
Grief
The more I learn, the less I want to know.
Life is, it would seem, not only far more tragic than you imagine, ...
Relationships
The last day. Redux.
My second divorce. A sense of deja vu. And a realisation that in ...
Storytelling
Kymaia: The first blog.
Kymaia writes her first blog post. And I cannot stop beaming with pride ...
Power
The Gabbar Singh strategy.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create ...
Life
The luckiest kid in the world.
How bland and dull our online lives actually are compared to our real ...
Family
We bid adieu to the Summer of 2022.
Kymaia, Natasha, and I go out one last time for the Summer of ...
Love
Kindness that no longer matters?
A poem shared by a friend on Facebook brings back memories of a ...
Advice
How to survive in a pack of alphas.
A Sunday well-spent doing risky shit amongst others like me is a day ...
Hero(es)
My father’s son.
Baba's attention to detail and obsession for record-keeping was matched only by his ...
Rant
Privacy and respect.
Consent and privacy are concepts to alien to subcontinental culture that one wonders ...
![Mr Baba: 'Would you like to take off the backpack now that you've been downstairs for like 30 minutes?'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'I like it like this. You should try it. It's very comfortable.'
Mr Baba: [Pulling on his backpack] 'Hmmm, you're right. That's rather snug.'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'Twinning! Yay!'
#LuckiestManAlive #BearFamily](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416920031_3373151642830342_6696851954454537274_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=ZMLmjPdSAEUAX8nnJex&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfB0olvUVmnenPKd2wCllMDehg5gzDgAbc4BDsGLqIm6pA&oe=65BA4561)
![Kym: 'Mr Baba, can I tell you something wierd? You can actually get tired from doing nothing!!'
Me: 'It is called boredom.'
Kym: 'Noooo. I mean, like physically tired.'
Me: 'One can get tired and sleepy due to boredom. I remember reading about it somewhere. Let's find out.'
[Some Googling later]
Me: 'It says here that "A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications finds that a part of the brain that is associated with motivation and pleasure - the nucleus accumbens - also can produce sleep. The new findings may explain why we have the tendency to fall asleep in the absence of motivating stimuli, i.e., when bored." Isnt it interesting?'
Kym: 'I already knew that. Why do you need to research things we already know?'
Me: [Finding a subject worth talking about now]: ' Ah well, that's what we'll talk of tomorrow on your morning run. It's very interesting the way science is done and our understanding of the universe is expanded.'
Kym: 'Can we talk of unicorns instead?'
Me: 'Sure. How do you know they exist? That's an interesting question too that you can use the scientific method to answer.'
Kym: 'Do they have to exist for us to talk about them? We can just pretend they do for an hour and have fun.'
Me: [Laughing] 'Yes, sure. We can do that too.'
#BabaBabyConversations #BearFamily #KymAndI](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416410840_383105434396466_2267910263456009774_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=LIozs445JFcAX_48wGC&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfDQ2qbb0yO_wUmLj_L0ZxF61eDdwlIN-vyrd8GZe_pBMQ&oe=65BAFA57)
