I still feel like this teenager… despite the 7 years that have passed since these videos were shot. (I think I still look like this too. We all do.) It’s funny to think that Mac is getting married next year, and Annie is halfway through Medical school. And me.. Well except for small reminders (like […]
I found this article saved in my old files… Had me reminiscing about high school, and how recent it all feels. But mostly i was remembering my best friends… and how somehow we have managed to fight the illusion that end of high school means the end of our friendship. Eternally grateful to have these […]
It’s been an interesting couple of months. And it really has been a couple of months since I have had a moment to put a thought on paper. I’m so used to writing about emotions, and yet I struggle to write about career. And these days its career that is really in flux in my […]
Reblogged from NewsFeed: The only thing Somali pirates hate more than not kidnapping people is "Oops I Did It Again" by Britney Spears--at least according to merchant navy officer Rachel Owens. In a bid to deter the pirates from approaching supertankers on the east coast of Africa and attempting to kidnap their crews, ships have […]
Sometimes you get a job. Your dream job, and all your free time for writing, and blogging and sharing goes away. You even lose the time you had to have emotional situations, which call for emotional writing. Hence the long silence. But i think i found my rhythm in life once more. […]
Reblogged from I Am Begging My Mother Not To Read This Blog: The summer camp where I’ve been working asks kids to write and create their own short plays. My colleague Sarah directed this one that I watched last night. The basic premise: a teenaged writer is belittled by his overbearing mother for his dream […]
Last friday packed tight into our Toyota corolla- five of us drove up to Acadia, Maine. As Navigator and proprietor of the largest butt, I got an automatic shotgun, while Malli- Mr. Long Legs had to stretch out in the back with the girls. Tha (dad) drove allowing us to make videos and bellow corny […]
A Scary Story from Indian Study Abroad. (PLEASE READ. ESPECIALLY THE COMMENTS ARE EYE-OPENING AND JARRING.) I can’t say i enjoyed this article, but i certainly related to it. I studied abroad in India. It was a great experience, I traveled, had fun, made friends, stepped outside of my comfort zone. It was marvelous. Definitely one […]
I’ve always wondered what happens on a weekend of a cultured person. What accounts for their knowledge of the world, from the arts to current events, to people they know or movies they’ve seen. I’m beginning to get a glimpse of this world in the “professional career woman” status I have been building over the […]
What if we apply Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection to culture? Often times I wonder if the degradation of some cultures, the drowning out of ancient traditions, languages is just natural selection at work. The “Americanization” of the world as it were. Is it really the west forcing its culture on the East? Or is […]
We hated it in high school, and college. For being restrictive, boring, and not being fun for the pure reason that reading the book only led to a paper, we hated summer reading lists. On the other hand I loved reading. I would always have a book with me, I went through all the books […]
One morning, sitting by the window bathing in the sun she was eating an apple. She was enjoying the heat of the summer, when she imagined the sun shining on her apple got captured as she bit into it and she tasted the sun. Startled by the sensation, she stopped chewing and quickly looked to […]
Reblogged from Entertainment: This past weekend, the U.K.'s Sunday Times broke the news that this past April, Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling secretly published a new book, a mystery novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling, under the name Robert Galbraith. The Times was tipped off by an anonymous tweet, and a subsequent investigation turned up the […]
Disclaimer: This is a very senti post. The funny thing is that I’ve written about us before. I’ve realized sometimes a million books filled with a million words isn’t enough to describe a feeling. That’s what this is. But that doesn’t mean I will stop trying. If you’re not in the mood for corny sentimentality […]
Sometimes a statement can be made without a single word. This powerful image addressed the issue better than any news report, political rant, facebook status or tweet ever could. “Copyright- https://twitter.com/VanJones68/status/356296960740835328/photo/1″ Filed under: The Fight
Reblogged from I Am Begging My Mother Not To Read This Blog: Every damn time someone in my facebook feed posts something like this, I click it. Every damn time. We all have this facebook friend, right? People you genuinely love and admire. People you like hanging out with. People you invite to your birthday […]
Reblogged from The Fight In Me: He sat in the T. Tailored gray pinstrip suit, and a fashionable cashmere scarf; highlighted by a baby pink hanky peeking out of his chest pocket. His perfectly polished shoes standing defiantly out against the dreary, dirty, frankly disgusting floor of the train. She sat across from him. Fedora, […]
As 4th of July weekend dawned I found myself inordinately free, alone and full of time. I had taken the Friday after the 4th off, and created a lovely long weekend for myself yet every plan for the time-off fell through. I can’t say I was disappointed though, for a relaxing weekend of doing whatever […]
I open my eyes as the ringing in my ears fades to silence. I’m on my knees, forehead to the ground. The baby on my lap makes no cry, but waits; she’s smudged with soot, holding tightly the silver spoon in her hand. I lay her on the ground and walk away. Never looking back. […]