Staying Friends and Growing Closer

I've never known anyone who won the lottery. So when Stephanie told me that she had, I know how to act.


“That's wonderful,” I said.


“I know,” she said.

But she told me she wanted me to know, because she wasn't sure if she was strong enough to do what needed to be done alone, which was to pay off and renovate her Dad’s house. I understood then.

The next eighteen months were great. We worked every day, having the papers drawn up and picking out landscaping we wanted to add. Stephanie worked hard. Together, we put in many late nights over lukewarm coffee, because that’s what friends do.


When we finally got the papers signed and the house was complete, she told me it felt like a fairy tale. And I think the reason fairy tales with heroes and dragons are so popular is because they know something that deep down we all believe.

Which is that dragons can be slayed, together.

Volvo Xc60

                               

Volvo XC60

               The ultimate sense of control

All roads, all weather, the XC60 is ready. With features like all-wheel drive, hill-descent control and hill-start assist to give you that extra push when you need it.

"A driver can get distracted, but the system doesn’t."

THE FUTURE OF SAFETY

It's on the look out

Your XC60 can sense swerving cyclists and pedestrians and prepares your breaks for a sudden stop. If there’s certainly no time to wait, your Volvo can break for you to avoid impact. Extending your car’s safety to the people around you.

At home, everywhere

The perfect car for demanding drivers in search of adventure–both in town and beyond the city limits.

PRICE (EX-SHOWROOM, DELHI)
XC60 Kinetic INR 45.71 LAKHS
XC60 Momentum INR 48.90 LAKHS
XC60 Inscription INR 52.61 LAKHS
XC60 R-Design INR 50.90 LAKHS

Volvo Xc60 Specifications

XC60	D4 AWD (190 hp) aut	D5 AWD (235 hp) aut

• Engines

  Engine Name	D4204T14	D4204T23
  Engine Description	Four-cylinder turbo charged diesel	Four-cylinder twin turbo-charged diesel engine
  Drivetrain	All wheel drive	All wheel drive
  Number of Cylinders	4	4
  Engine Displacement	1969 cc	1969 cc
  Engine Bore	82 mm	82 mm
  Engine Stroke	93.2 mm	93.2 mm
  Max Engine Power (kW)	140 kW	173 kW
  Horsepower	190 hp	235 hp
  Rev at max engine power	4250 rpm	4000 rpm
  Torque	400 Nm	480 Nm
  Rev at max engine torque	1750 - 2500 rpm	1750 - 2250 rpm
  Fuel type	Diesel	Diesel

How I Made a Friend 5,000 Miles Away

“That's my football club! My football club! I would recognize that crest from a thousand miles away.” And, indeed, I did. Five thousand, actually.

When I saw the picture of the boy on the news, smiling and covered in chocolate from a party in a celebration I'd never heard of, I didn't immediately think, “Oh, how interesting!” or “Goodness, lucky child!” My first thought was: that's my football club!

The jacket he wore, smudged and smeared with sweets, bore the unmistakable crest of my local football club. I have no idea how he came to have it, but in every picture, there it was, along with a poster of our starting forward on his empty bedroom wall. I called the photographer credited with the photo, and she told me the boy lived at an orphanage in the capital city. With a little detective work, I found out its address.

And I sent that boy every last team jersey, cap, sweatshirt, pajama bottom, teddy bear, and sock I had.

BOXED IN

BOXED IN

We’ve all got boxes in our lives. How many do you have?

I’ve got one for my professional life, and one for my passions. I’ve got boxes of different sizes: big ones for hockey, little ones for housekeeping. I have boxes for music and for foods and for fears and for hopes. We all divide our lives into many boxes, to be opened or closed as we see fit.


Some people have boxes for death, divorce, and destruction. Some people have boxes for unimaginable joy and discovery. Some of us just have them for junk food.


But however many boxes we have, it’s important to unpack them all sometimes. It’s important to see how many boxes you’ve accumulated over the years, and whether you might not have too many.


Because boxes are great, but require a lot of walls.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

                                                     SHAPING UP

Down with the same old shapes!


Down with rectangles, circles, and squares! Down with triangles, convenient though they may be in certain poking and slicing applications. Down with octagons, the nay-sayers of the road.


Be gone with pentagons, hexagons,and nonagons! Your abundant vertices and your myriad facets won’t save you now. I’m advocating for the overthrow of all standardized shapes.

Where are the non-conformist shapes, the love-children of square pegs and round holes? Where are the shapes that weren’t interested in fitting so neatly inside the lines?


Go, express yourself fully in all three dimensions! Ooze confidently in the direction of your dreams!