The Little Things Matter

Tales of everyday life, the black and white of science coloured by some light-hearted touches of imagination!  

As a pathologist, you quickly learn to appreciate details – the seemingly insignificant and subtle changes that characterise the world under the microscope. Nothing can ever be dismissed as unimportant, mundane, or routine; you are alive to the possibility of the unexpected. It changes your perspective forever. The world, when viewed through a similar lens assumes new proportions; it’s fleeting moments, trifling details, and its brief encounters with creatures small (and big) become both unique and rewarding.

Welcome to Tales of Ipsa! Your place to see the special in the everyday. If a chord is struck or a memory jogged do comment.

Tales of Ipsa

• Tracking every step
  The first step is the hardest, they say. It takes a human infant a whole year to quit its quadruped… Read more: Tracking every step
• The Prickly Cactus
  My eyes fell on the prickly cactus on my balcony. Fleshy, bulbous, and very prickly, but so very undemanding. Was… Read more: The Prickly Cactus
• Paired proverbs
  For every pithy proverb in use, there is in another corner of the world (or sometimes in the very same… Read more: Paired proverbs
• Birds are Us
  Early morning. Unhurried and peaceful. A time to sit out in the balcony with my cup of coffee, feel the… Read more: Birds are Us
• The sidewalk
  I woke up to clear skies and the still-cool breeze of a summer dawn. There had been no storm the… Read more: The sidewalk