That’s right! About three hours from now, we will officially be in the fall season here this side of the globe. There is something solid and reassuring about knowing the exact date and time of the change. For days now, I have been ignoring the dry patches on my leg. Body lotion was for fall. […]
For the past couple of days, this is all I can think of. The V’s are coming! V and V are my cousin and her daughter and they are visiting us for a week. After a longest time I will be having company at home that involves (hopefully) a lot of arratai sessions and general […]
Getting off the phone after a long conversation with a good friend, I was left wondering about a lot of things. We were discussing a lot of what is happening in the blogosphere with respect to women’s periods and like topics. As we dissected why moms and in laws act like guardians and keepers of […]
You know you are a generation past when
Thoughts and images of college days and beyond appear sepia toned in your mind
Testimonials on Orkut make you go “What are they thinking??”
You don’t wonder if you should get your hair “colored”. You think when next to do it.
You realize you have three nieces and a nephew
Your have […]
It finally happened. The impulsive Saravanaa Bhavan trip I had wanted a few weeks back. We decided at 10:30 in the morning and were there around 1:00 just in time for a highly satisfying lunch.
There was something incredibly nice about sitting in a car with music on, baby asleep and lush greenery all around. Even […]
It feels like an incredibly long time since we had a bunch of friends over for get-togethers, potluck dinner or just sitting around and chatting. Almost a good year or more. We occasionally have a family over but that has been it. I look back fondly on the times when we rather frequently invited close […]
After almost half a year of sharing most of the inner workings of my mind, today I am at a loss for words. I sit staring blankly at the editor in front of me. It is one of those days when I feel a disquiet rustling inside me. The stirrings of a deep seated craving […]
Down and out is how I feel
When all of future resembles the current day
I can feel sadness welling inside me
Like a wave ready to crash
Yet I blink and carry on
For there is no reason I should be sad
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Photographs have a way of making me melancholy. I look at pictures from my past and relive the moment the picture was taken. Sitting on my desk at work is a picture of my dad in his blue collared tee shirt with red horizontal stripes spaced wide apart. He has a nice smile and his […]
As yet another of my gazillion cousins sets out on this arranged marriage journey I feel a twinge of pain. For all those pictures that will get tossed aside because “(s)he is fat!”. For all those ponnu parkals that will end in a day of agony when the call comes through saying “We liked everything […]
