Pandemic Life with 3 Young Kids
With kids aged 2, 5, and 9: why, what, and how we managed our kids with the demands of career and home.
Diliny M. De Alwis
Poems
Summer Solstice
A warm afternoon during the summer solstice captured in words by someone suffering from a severe case of writer’s block.
How to Get Your Kids Off the Couch
Here are some tried, tested, and true ways to get your kids (ages 2 to 10) up and about.
Self-isolation: Beans for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
Once upon a time most households relied on a cauldron bubbling over coals or a fire that slow cooked beans.
Which Feeling
How well do our teachers teach our kids in kindergarten about their feelings? This is a retelling of a dialogue I had with my son.
Anecdotal Evidence
I WAS Molly Patel
Mindy Kaling an idol and one of the best comedy writers in mainstream created this character in her film Late Night (2019). Warning - a…
On Motherhood: From Unemployed Mom to Getting the Job
The struggle and success of finding and transitioning to work and financial independence after being a stay at home mom for several years. On the struggle to move from being a stay at home mom to rejoining the workforce.
Anecdotal Evidence
Playful Objectivity
It’s 4AM and the words to the song of the same title by Our Lady Peace come to mind.
Songs of the Gospel
How to make friends in strange places while living in a foreign country: why not join a Gospel Choir?
Anecdotal Evidence
On the Edge of Obesity
What I learned after 25 years of diet, nutrition, and struggles maintaining weight. Low fat, keto, intermittent fasting, and clean eating over a 25 year period and the results: Weight maintenance and weight loss. Loss of weight post pregnancy.
A day in the life
Mon-Fri as a stay at home mom
Poems
I was once
I was once this person small who when asked could not speak to all One day I planted a tree to grow and unlocked some interesting people…