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Installing India – Phase 1
It's been two months since we've moved back to India. And life has been very different. (I've heard that's what happens when you move across the globe).
Start with routine things like, taking a shower. In the US that meant: taking a shower. Here, things get a little more complicated!
Let's take this evening, for instance. The kids needed to ...
When Opposites Say, “I Do”
As the husband and I celebrate our tenth anniversary, I doled out wise words (ahem) on marriage on indiaanya.com.
The hubbers and I are as different as they come. Not like apples-and-oranges different, or even Mars-and-Venus different . . . More like, he’s from Mars and I’m an apple (well, more of a pear when it comes ...
Don’t focus on the Potatoes and Potholes
So we wanted to get here.
After selling our house and our cars at the perfect point in time. After getting our US citizenship and all our crazy complicated Indian paperwork sorted. But before the school year started. With admission in the school we chose although they'd closed admissions for the year. While living in an apartment ...
Saying Goodbye To Your First Home
In a few days we'll be moving to India. 8197 miles away from what we currently call home.
We're excited about new adventures. We feel like it's a God thing and a good thing for our family.
And yet, every morning, I wake up in a tangle of emotions. Before my eyes open and my thoughts focus, my ...
Stepping Out
I was shopping at Target last week when I ran into a 3-year-old I teach at Sunday School. (She was with her mom, people. This isn’t an article on free-range versus helicopter parenting.)
Anyway, the adorable thing looked up at me and said with wonder, “Teacher, I didn’t know you lived here!”
She wasn’t too far off ...
Cleanliness Is Next To Craziness
There's plenty to update my blog about, but for now I'll just have to say that my writing bug has been squished a little by a voluminous cleaning effort. We're getting ready to put our house on the market soon, so we're cleaning and organizing, painting and planting.
In other words, we're going bonkers.
Not a state ...
22 Quirks of the Desi in America
There’s an old Indian joke that goes that when Neil Armstrong went to the moon, he ran into a Malayalee running a tea stall there.
That would have been a giant leap for mankind, if it were true. But it doesn’t discount the fact that Indians are everywhere.
Indians in America bequeath each with other half-smiles of ...
I Pledge Allegiance
Ask my five-year-old, Missy M, how one participates in their democracy, and she’ll come up with, “Join a political party.” She’s smart like that. You might see her on Ellen soon.
It's more likely that she just has good listening skills. She’s been listening to an American Civics CD in the car for a month now, thanks to ...
15 Signs I’m Married to a Techie
It works most of the time - he's the yin to my yang, the creamer to my coffee, the salsa to my chips.
But sometimes I just look at my hubbers and go, "Really?!"
He loves his devices and would use a tablet as a pillow, if I let him. When I think of tablets, on the other ...
MEET SUSAN
