This post was originally written on April 14th 2011, while I was living in Ann Arbor, MI. Never posted it. But today I can. So here. _________________________________________ It’s been so long since I lost mom to Alzheimer’s. I was very young. I barely have any happy memories of her, with her, about her. But she… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
I am one of those people who believes everyone has something to teach us. And truly, I have learned from the most unexpected people. During my days as a student social worker, I was placed at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Mumbai. The setting was depressing. We came across people who were depressed… [Read more…]
August 9, 2011
This post is based on ad hoc research conducted on Facebook. The idea is to make myself and my friends think. I put up a status message, “What’s the best compliment anyone could ever give you?” and hoped that people would reply sincerely. I have always believed, and you might agree, that we feel most… [Read more…]
July 24, 2011
To get a background of this post, you may want to read the previous ones. My husband and I went to a waterpark with a few friends. Among our friends was a couple and their 6-year old son. Sid and I were left alone for a while with the handsome li’l boy. We decided to… [Read more…]
May 25, 2011
“I am not as spiritual as you!” These are words I have heard most often in the last few years. A lot of us are unhappy in our situations. A lot us would like our lives to change a little bit. We put in all our effort to make something happen and then it just… [Read more…]
May 16, 2011
Yes, there’s precisely a day, a moment when I knew I was a grown up and I had to make my own decisions. No, it was not an all important decision about what college to go to or what subjects to study. Nor was it my 18th birthday. Nor did I have to choose the… [Read more…]
April 19, 2011
My birthday doesn’t arrive, it looms, As a dreadful eventuality might, So I wait with trepidation, Fearing the impending doom. Birthdays make me introspect, Everything seems wrong in retrospect, Everyone else appears successful and happy, And I am left to nurse my dampened mood. A birthday is just another day, But on that day I… [Read more…]
April 7, 2011
Today, I ran in the rain, Without any aim, Not to seek shelter, Nor to enjoy the weather! The streets ran with me, The homes, they moved away, The wind was against me, But I ran anyway! I had no place to be, Or no situation to flee, I had no one chase,… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
It’s been a while since I thought of the BIG AD and what it means or implies to my life. These days I am incredibly happy. Very grateful for all the surging joy I feel inside of me each day. I think about God more often these days than I have even in my darkest… [Read more…]
March 15, 2011
They still are like foreign agents to my lips – the words – wife, husband, married; the less said the better about my new found identity as a HOUSEWIFE. It hit me when I was filling in the immigration form just before landing in America. “Occupation” demanded the cruel white sheet. Somewhat belligerently, I wrote… [Read more…]
February 20, 2011
The only thing that holds me together is prayer. In the last few years, I have seen how praying has helped not just Roberto and me, but I feel our prayers have helped many, many, many people. This post is an example of how I began to put my faith in prayers and God. As… [Read more…]
February 20, 2011
A new series that I am going to write weekly. It will have a series of questions (which will change every week) and I will post my responses to them. A. It’s 12 days to your wedding, state 3 words that describe what you feel. panic, fear, excitement B. If you could change 1 thing… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
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