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in November 2015
Blunder-Proof Interviews
Re-posting an article from a lifetime ago - twelve years, to be precise! I wrote it for Sulekha, a website for the Asian American community. In retrospect, I should have edited about 150 words and tightened the copy, but I'm sure my 20-something self believed she nailed it with her first draft. (Also, my apologies for the guy bashing ...
How to Redeem Your Grocery Goof-Up
Twenty one cucumbers stare at me from the kitchen counter. One disappears and then there are twenty.
No, this isn’t the start of an obscure nursery rhyme designed to teach kids to count backwards.
It’s just the result of my online grocery shopping gone a wee bit wrong. Yeah, I’m not entirely sure how I ended up ...
10 Ways You Know It’s Raining in Bangalore (Other than the fact that it’s raining)
Photo credit: The hubbers
It’s been a while since we dealt with the monsoons in India. At first, it felt idyllic. I took pretty pictures of raindrops glistening on flowers on our terrace. I breathed in the earthy, first-rain smell that Indian authors love to describe in mind-numbing detail.
All that excitement lasted about a grand ...
I was “that” mom today…
Kids packed off to school.
Coffee down.
Time to unload the dishwasher.
It's then I see it. A mason jar. Not just any old mason jar - the jar that was supposed to hold the plant that Sonny boy was supposed to take with him to school on Monday morning.
Except today is Monday morning. And the jar is looking up ...
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