This is my dad Geoffrey Fernandes I wasn’t ready to miss him when he left mebut this is the eulogy he should’ve gotten 7 years ago.He may not have always been the best father but at the end of the day he was mine and I am grateful to have loved him. I am grateful […]
October 21st, 2021 will forever be etched in my heart. A day filled with tears and pain and lots more that followed thereafter. Heartbroken, devastated and with a very heavy heart I heard of my close friend Shazia who lost her battle to Stage 4 breast cancer that awful morning. Many knew of her, […]
Every day , amma reads aloud the number of covid cases. As alarming as it sounds, everyone gets back to their normal chores after a few minutes of tension and all the despair . The grief strikes you for just 2 minutes straight. That’s life! If we were ever given an opportunity to work from […]
For the past twenty years, I’ve lived in the Middle East. I currently work in Dubai as a nanny. I’m sixty years old, have never been married, and my whole family lives in India. I never imagined I’d live to see a time like this. In 2020, when the talk about the virus began, I […]
I’m Rajamma, seventy years old from Palakkad, Kerala, India. I currently work with a family as a maid – cooking, cleaning and doing other odd jobs around the house. I’ve had to depend on myself my entire life. I am a widow who has raised her children and three grandchildren all by myself. I won’t […]
My 2020 story is more about losing our dearest Angel , the closest thing to what Mel and me got to having our very own daughter after having 2 sons. Angel was a breeder discarded Labrador, who was rescued by CUPA after getting abandoned in Bangalore and then finally finding a home with us and a […]
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