Lakshmi G. Iyer

The Journal

Before the books, there was this. A blog started in 2005 by a woman in a Pennsylvania suburb who needed someplace to put her thoughts, to speak into the void: the kaapi going cold on the counter, the wait for children who had not yet arrived, the office badge, the ache for Madras in December.

I wrote about everything. God and grief, murukku and marriage, the twins learning to walk, the pregnancy that made us five, the reading at midnight, the journey to becoming myself in a country I chose. I wrote to be found, the truth is it never was.

For years these entries floated unlinked, each one an island. This page is the harbor: every thread below is listed with the post that began it, and the closers carry you onward from there.

Follow one from its first post and you will watch a life assemble in real time. Or wander. The journal does not mind.

The Collections

The Inner Life

The Family Years

Rooted and Uprooted

Watching and Reading

The World Outside

The Blog Itself

And a few loose pages that belong to no thread at all: Reflections on reading (2011) · Perils Of Judging From Afar (2019).