By Piyushi Dhir
Mom says Corona is going… I was excited to hear that. “Can I play with my friends?” I asked. “We have to take things slowly,” Mom explained. “We can start by making a social bubble.” “What’s a social bubble?” “Now ten people can meet among each other, but we still can’t go to the market […]
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Guest post, by Gaurav Dhir, editor at Help and WellnessBeing new immigrants to Canada, we have been constantly learning and discovering a new way of life. Our biggest source of information about a new lifestyle has been our friends, neighbors and acquaintances. We were prepared for many new things in a new country. But one […]
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Hello from my home to yours! At least, I hope you are not being naughty and wandering around – stay home and stay safe. But honestly, this staying at home is getting a little too much. It started out as fun because I didn’t have to rush to eat breakfast and get dressed for school […]
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The other day, Mom and I were listening to some songs and I heard one about a Country Mouse and a City Mouse. It was a fun song about how the Country Mouse likes to eat oats and beans, while the city mouse likes to eat cake and cheese. I was reminded of the song […]
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Last weekend, Mom and Dad took me to a place called Barrie, a ninety minute drive north from our home. The further north we went, the more snow I could see around me. Only last week I had been praying to God to send more snow and suddenly it was like my wish had been […]
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Hello! Hello! I am back! Some of you may remember me from two years ago, when I used to post my ‘Diary of a One Year Old’. Life was exciting as I zoomed in and out of Dubai, Paris and Ivory Coast in Africa. And then Canada happened! That’s when I went AWOL. What happened […]
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Ever met a mom of 81 cute kids? A lady full-of-energy, who knows each of her kids by name and can distinguish between each of them, even though they are a herd of alpacas? Meet Amy Kung-Oliver, an amazing lady I had the good fortune to meet in Colborne. My friends and I decided to […]
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Last summer was our first in Canada and not unsurprisingly, a big part of it was spent getting settled into our new lives. This summer, however, we made it a point to do the Canadian thing of ‘getting away’ every now and then. We also changed the direction we usually drive in. So picture this, […]
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“Wow, you’ve lost weight,” texted a friend, after seeing a recent picture I had posted. “Slim legs,” said another one. “Special diet?” asked a third. I laugh to myself. I remember all those comfortable days back in Ivory Coast when I had two maids at my beck and call. How much I paid a gym, […]
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Knowing that his 5 year old neighbour-friend goes to school gave my 2 year old much curiosity about this haloed institution that he could not yet attend. This was a year ago. When his turn finally came to start pre-school, he started with all the enthusiasm of a kid who had been handed a new […]
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