Songs From The Wood

No Holds Barred Parenting: Part Two

Dinesh Dutt — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:54:13 +0000

Our third teacher was a soft-spoken jazz guy named Richard, with wide hips. He said he had a two-year-old daughter. At our first meeting, he gave Sophia and me a big lecture about the importance of living in the moment and playing for oneself. … Richard said there were no rules in music, only what [...]

The Road: A Harrowing, Riveting Read

Dinesh Dutt — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:54:56 +0000

I woke up around 2 am. My hands unconsciously sought my iPhone beside my bed. Curled up in a foetal position under the covers, I continued reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. It was around 4.00 am or so when I turned the last page. In my adolescence, when I read mostly pulp fiction, I have [...]

No Holds Barred Parenting

Dinesh Dutt — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:52:56 +0000

Amy Chua’s book on Chinese parenting “Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother” is polemic, but unflinching look at one woman’s model of parenting. Amy Chua’s book stirred up a lot of discussion and outcry at the beginning of the year. I knew about some of the stuff that was in the book based on excerpts [...]

Our Solar Adventures: Year 2

Dinesh Dutt — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:45:00 +0000

Our electricity bill for the year was about $8, about double that of last year. To start off the comparison, here are the charts for the 2 years, 2010 and 2011. Of course, December is still empty for this year. The total yearly production in 2010 for the first 11 months was 4010 kWh while [...]

Cutting For Stone: A Review

Dinesh Dutt — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:44:40 +0000

Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted? I haven’t still gotten off the fiction track that I got on last December. Not that I haven’t read non-fiction, but it’s probably been over ten years that fiction has had such a long streak with me. Part of [...]