Dear Friends and Family,

February has turned into March—I had written—lost and found—February's blog; I liked it and disliked it. And so here are parts of it, plus more about March.

We have decided to settle here in India, in the high Nilgiri mountain range. Nilgiri means blue—so we are living in the Blue Mountains, just south of the city of Ooty, in Tamil Nadu. Thank you for your suggestions of other places to live. Our four dogs and three cats are also instrumental to our decis...

Dear family and friends,

Wishing you all warm greetings of Love and good wishes for the New Year 2012.

Some of you have not yet heard of the details about moving our four dogs and three cats from the ocean level Kerala to the Nilgiri Mountain range—some seven-thousand feet above sea level (2000 meters.) What is a cat from Kerala going to do with a bunch of monkeys in the neighboring trees?

But to begin this story, I must preface it with the disclaimer that some of you may not want to ...