Life Lately
A hodge podge of stories, pictures and updates on life right now.
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Healthy Frozen Treat for the Summer
Once while at a fancy resort in Scottsdale, Arizona I saw on the menu an option for “frozen grapes”. It seemed rather odd and simple, and so I assumed the opposite and figured it was some fancy dessert that included grapes. I put in an ordered while sitting at the pool side, and when it…
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Strawberry Season
Have you been strawberry picking yet? Would you be surprised if I told you that I have never ever been to a strawberry farm even though they are one of my most favorite fruits? I start thinking about fixing this little error each year, until I realize that thanks to Devang, our backyard produces more…
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In com plete
A card from my friend Dottie. Found a couple of days ago while organizing old pictures. Given when I was pregnant with Asha who is now 8-years old. My inquiry into the progress revealed that Project “Baby Cashmere – Paris” was abandoned after a case of wonky booties many years ago. We still remain friends.
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I never want to Multitask again.
On a recent Friday, I was on Creative Mornings/RDU‘s virtual speaker event with Journalist, rock critic, novelist, and 2019 Piedmont Laureate David Menconi. I am CMRDU’s staff photographer; a role that has morphed drastically in this last year when all their events moved to the virtual platform (hello screen-shot photography!). On this particular day, before…
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Books and Dreams
A note to readers – Here, I originally intended to simply tell you about two books: David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words. They are both really good, entertaining, yet antipodes for personal accounts on learning a foreign language which is something I have tried to do for many…
The Antibland Chronicles 