Entries from May 2008

May 31, 2008

Life goes on

Yeah, that’s how it normally is. Life goes on. My miscarriage is old news. In the two weeks that I spent moping around the house, the earth didn’t stop rotating. Thousands of people died in China from an earthquake, relief efforts restarted in Burma, a crane crashed in NYC killing a few people, an Indian [...]

May 20, 2008

What next?

Could my luck have turned around all of a sudden? It’s true that good things were starting to happen in my life, like HG getting his citizenship interview call 1.5 years after we applied (for normal people it takes 4 months for the entire process.) I am still stuck in the system, but still, we [...]

May 14, 2008

Nine Lives

My attempt at fiction……though not all of this is complete fiction. Some recent events spurred me to write this piece. Sorry for the thoroughly morbid ending.
S, you probably will never read my blog but I wanted to say how sorry I am for your loss. May God give you and B the courage to [...]

May 9, 2008

Please don’t go…….

Only 2 more days to go; my parents will leave for India on Sunday. And I can’t even get myself to think about it. I burst into tears every time I have to imagine a scenario without them here (and I assure you it’s not my hormones causing the crying bouts.) The thought of them [...]