Category: Musings
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A tradition I have come to treasure
Every year UL family and ours make a trip to the temple followed by dinner at a nearby restaurant. There is nothing fancy or splashy about our temple or restaurant choice, yet every year I look forward to this simple ritual. An offering of thanks to the almighty for the blessings we have and a…
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That’s why I stand outside the door
Wiping Cee’s snotty nose, I glanced at the clock. 8:42 AM. Wanting to be out and on my way and torn with guilt at watching my poor mom bend painfully to feed the kutties, I gave up. Dropping my bag, I took the bottle of baby food and shoved huge spoonfuls into two unwilling mouths. Dropping…
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Cypress Pearl Green. Evergreen.
I laid eyes on her nine years ago in the dead of the night. The following morning pulling at the seatbelt for the first time ever, I sat in the passenger seat a proud bride beside her newly wedded husband. We drove to ShopRite on what was our first every grocery shopping of our married…
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A little further. A little harder.
Brushing my teeth before bed, strange thoughts ran amuck in my head. I was thinking about this post I wrote a few days back. I kept coming back to the word apology. Do regrets equal apology? I did not think so. There are so many things I said or did that I regret but not…
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Q&A: R2I or not?
Anonymouse asked: Have you all decided to live here in USA for the rest of your life and do you ever think about going back to India? Well! like every desi (almost) I have met here in the US, I have thought and still think about this. In the first few years here, the answer…
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When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
News Anchor. Growing up I devoured books. I loved to read. Anything. Could be a novel or the newspaper or the paper packet in which parcel idlis came in. Words fascinated me. Still does though not the way it used to. The side effect of reading so much was that I had an intuitive feel…
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Ok, Can we stop the BS?
Seated across the sales person at a car dealership, K and I were getting increasingly impatient. It was two hours since we got there and the salesman was pulling every trick in the book to keep us from the number we were asking. Every ten minutes he would fake a conversation with his manager only…
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Relatively speaking
Sometimes it happens. You see yourself grow metaphorically. Like today when I was talking to a colleague who once in my eyes was senior. Today, I felt at ease relating to him on an equal footing and that is when it hit me. I have grown. Grown from a scared newbie to someone who can…
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Moments that pass you by
It is true ain’t it? Sometimes the moment passes you by and your outlook changes. Completely. This weekend I indulged and watched two movies I had long wanted to catch despite conflicting reviews I had read. Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya and Wake Up Sid. While VTV had its flaws there were some stand out scenes for me. One line…
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Spring purge?
Late last evening I was filled with an incredible urge to clean my virtual presence. The question begged “Where do I start?” To take a step back over the past few weeks I have been filled with a sense of disquiet. I feel the need to write to people. Honest to goodness letters and emails.…