Category: People
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Why does it matter to you?
Back at home after a particularly long day at work, I bathed the girls in turn. As I was drying Kay, I heard a stranger’s voice from the kitchen below. It turned out to be the handy man who was in to replace our leaky kitchen sink faucet. “She doesn’t look anything like you!” the…
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Hey mom! How are you?
Rushing back to my seat after a mid day break to visit my dentist, I spied this colleague who joined the company around the same time I did. We never really worked together but were loosely part of the same group. From shy smiles we transitioned to waves and talking about the weather over the…
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Memories of a distant past
Revelling in the fact that we had internet, phone and TV after a 3 day hiatus, I eagerly checked voicemail. After sorting through cold marketing calls, a note from my doc office reminding me of an appointment, I was left with one from strange number from New York. Wondering who it could be I played…
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Yet another myth shattered!
Ambling along in a leisurely fashion around my block pushing the tandem stroller with Kay and Cee in it late yesterday evening, I enjoyed the quietness of dusk and the warmth of the setting sun. Kay and Cee seemed to be lost in the glory of the everyday beauty surrounding them as well. Smiling to…
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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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Some good, some bad, all memorable
Continuing with the spring purge I started a week back, I attacked my contacts list with gusto knowing full well that I surely was not in touch with the 700 odd people the machine said were on my contacts list. Scanning the list quickly, some names popped out. Some had a vaguely familiar ring to…
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Moving from the outside to the inside
“Happy First Mother’s day!” said a couple of messages on Face.book. A link to a customized video in my inbox and two round cherubic bald faces wished me first thing this morning. I have had so many thoughts run through my head in the run up to today. While I struggled to express what I felt…
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Out of the mouths of babies
Walking up the short flight of stairs at our local temple with Kay happily perched on my hips, a childish voice rang out behind me “Why is that Indian couple carrying white babies Appa!?”. I turned instinctively feeling defensive and amused. There was this little boy all of seven or eight years looking to his…
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I remember
The sound of the phone droned in my head in deep sleep. Rubbing my eyes awake I saw the clock show 3:48 AM. A phone call at that hour only meant one thing. Death. So it was. My cousin was calling to share the news that a great-aunt passed away. I put the receiver down…
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Midweek musings
Sitting in the darkened room with a single lamp on the writing desk illuminating K’s furrowed brows as he tries to get work done, I am enjoying this moment. The babies are asleep in the other room, their rhythmic breathing punctuating the otherwise silent room save the whirring fan and quiet keyboard sounds. It will…