This really happened.
This past Friday, I drove myself to work. It is a rarity considering K and I work at the same place and he almost always drives the car. The day went past and it was time for me to leave. Remembering to check with K on directions to another place I wanted to […]
It’s amazing how little things bring order and a smile to an otherwise chaotic day. After six odd months, as K and I drove to work together, I was on my cell phone calling Amma like I always do. Just as expected, she picked the phone at first ring and my first question was “Enna […]
As I go about my regular weekday ritual of waking early to cook in the morning, I realize how much on auto-pilot I am on. As I light the lamps or power the music player on to play melodious music it occurs to me that no one really asked me or told me to do […]
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 […]
Most mornings as I have my pot of tea simmering on the stove, I have my laptop up on my kitchen island and bring up Google Reader to catch up on all those night owls who have been posting while I have been gloriously asleep. As I skim through the new entries and mark some […]
Don’t you look beautiful today? She asked and nodded appreciatively as she passed me on the aisle at work. I was on my way to fill my water bottle and start my day. Since the days are warmer and I feel the lightness of Spring in my step, I usually tend to wear clothes that […]
Helloji!! smiled the man at the counter of our local Indian grocers. “Been a while since I saw you here” he said in Gujarati accented Hindi. K and I smiled, paused at bit by the counter and inquired after him and his family. “I have been wanting to reach you the past week” he emphatically […]
Racing against time, I dropped K off at the building entrance and went to park my car. It was almost 9:00. Lugging my laptop case and a pretty heavy lunch bag, I made my way to the door shoulders hunched from the cold and the breeze. I struggled with the door and pushed it open […]
I ambled down the stairs awake but not quite alert and paused for a brief moment before my ’swami ull’ or praying space. I light a pair of oil lamps daily first thing after I am done brushing my teeth and before I treat myself to a steaming cup of tea. Today I felt lazy. […]
