Valley of Decision “Are you Raina Novak?” “Yes, I am, why?” He handed her the beautifully arranged rose presentation gift and asked her to sign. She shook her head in disbelief. There had to be a mistake, so she looked at the message to check on the intended recipient and sender then smiled. The sender was Brenna Cartwright, but Raina knew who the real sender … Continue reading Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 4
Freya’s Bribery Threat “Thank you Donald I’ll be making a change over from night shift supervision to day shift and we have a gap day and a half to adjust sleeping patterns between the next day shift, so, I have this Thursday off and wonder if that would be a good time for you and Brenna? I should be ready by 9am.” “I need to … Continue reading Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 3
Brenna Cartwright Returns Two weeks later Raina commenced her shift and scanned records to see who’d been admitted in her absence and their medical history. She gasped as she saw the name Brenna Cartwright and wondered what had bought this girl back for treatment. Had they missed something before that was vital for her health? They had very sophisticated methods of assessing health problems now … Continue reading Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 2
War and Rescue Raina Novak sat at the nursing station in the children’s ward filling in required documentation on each child in the ward on computer. She’d just accompanied the doctor making his rounds and needed to input his instructions into the hospital ward database. While she was reasonably competent in English now after six months at this London hospital there were occasions when she … Continue reading Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 1
Ashramas It was a national holiday and crowds were out in Surat to celebrate. Aashi and her mother had been to the temple and were returning home by auto rickshaw when they observed one of the chowkidars at the security office checking people into and out of the gated community. He’d prevented a disheveled woman clutching a small suitcase from entry and she was wailing … Continue reading Four Stages of Life – Chapter 4
Planning for the Future Gopal sat the Patel young men down and reviewed their progress at school noting as he did, he’d invested well in them. They were both gaining top grades in their schoolwork and expected to graduate in their respective years of graduation with honors. He asked a lot of questions about their philosophy in life, honor for traditional values and ambitions as … Continue reading Four Stages of Life – Chapter 3
Change Management Gopal, who was an astute student of human nature, finally addressed his boy’s question about their future passing the question off with the assurance his plans for future education were already in motion and they seemed quite satisfied to know each of them were being considered equally for their careers. But Gopal’s mind was working hard on Kamini’s comment, and he wondered what … Continue reading Four Stages of Life – Chapter 2
Disruption in the Family Gopal Desai looked at his watch and clapped his hands. Iditri Patel his personal assistant came running. The whole family Patel looked after the Desai’s spacious penthouse occupying the complete area of the top level. It was luxurious and had access to the roof area which Gopal’s wife Smt. Rajvi utilized for entertainment, recreation and rooftop gardens in the area not … Continue reading Four Stages of Life – Chapter 1
Melvin sat smiling and nodding his head as the government representative made a presentation for meritorious service accompanied by the usual speech to those attending who were about to retire from a lifetime of government teaching. It was the usual platitudes, something their chief was supposed to do as part of his duties as the ranking official in this government department. Those present receiving their … Continue reading Melvin’s Post Graduate Education.
Lady Catherine Sinclair smiled as Rachel Farmer was ushered into her private sitting room by her trusted lady in waiting Elizabeth Margate. Both women were of the aristocracy, but Elizabeth’s family had fallen on hard times because of Lord Margate’s foolish decisions. As they were related Lady Catherine had rescued the daughters of the Margate family and arranged suitable marriages for them young as they … Continue reading Keeping up Appearances
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