It’s been a while since I wrote. Haven’t had much inspiration lately. That’s what having in-laws at home does to me. I am on new turf now, completely at my wit’s end. Not that my in-laws are the evil saas-bahu type of people. They don’t make me eat leftover food or make me wash their [...]
HG and I finally have the house to ourselves. Feels strange. We haven’t had this kind of freedom since Feb, when my parents arrived from India. The last few months were a busy whirl. I feel like I did a lot but when I sit down to list the activities it’s like I did nothing. [...]
Friday was a weird day. And i don’t mean that in a Friday the 13th kind of way. I woke up in the morning next to my Indian husband and went to bed at night with an American. And it was really easy, you know. No awkwardness or animosity. In some ways you can say [...]
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 [...]
Mine, I am proud to say, is a genius. Last week I saw him making multiple trips to our basement, which at first I mistook for his daily laundry routine (my folks are the kind who insist on washing clothes everyday). But very soon I saw him scurrying down with some tools, and soon after [...]
A while back, during a relaxed holiday abroad, I did something extremely stupid - I put some rather grandiose and now in hindsight, foolish ideas into HG’s head. Told him that he needs to be my voice of reason, and that he should push me more and that if he sees me slacking he should [...]
PBS has been showing ‘The Complete Jane Austen’ series as part of Masterpiece Theatre. It comes on Sunday nights and I am thoroughly enjoying the watching and re-watching of these classics. So far we have seen Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Sense & Sensibility is next week. The cast is not [...]
- warm dinner every night
- homemade breakfast too some days
- packed lunch boxes
- washed laundry
- a spotlessly clean home
- someone waiting eagerly for you to come back from work
- someone to argue with
- someone to blindly defend me in an argument with HG
There are days when I want to strangle my mother, but when I [...]
It happens gradually. You don’t get a sense for it in your weekly phone calls home. For you, your parents are still the same ones you left behind. They couldn’t really have turned old. That only happens to other people’s parents and in Hindi movies. Never mind that dad has been availing of the senior [...]
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