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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…
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White Chocolate Banana Muffins
I am curious – How do you go about picking recipes? Especially baking recipes which have little wiggle room for intuitive cooks? It used to be that I was willing to give any recipe a try if the blogger’s pictures and descriptions looked tempting enough. However, as you can imagine, the success rate of these…
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The Making of a Bad Day
Bad days don’t announce themselves usually but wouldn’t it be wonderful if they did? I don’t even need to know the specifics really; I am quite happy dealing with the mystery of it all. I just need to know that it is going to be a bad one so that I can drink a few…
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Dreaming of Utah
When it comes to traveling I am all about destinations with bustling city centers that allow for lots of walking, eating, and people watching. If it wasn’t for Devang, I probably would have never known the magic of exploring National Parks. I am not sure why, but today I am reminiscing about our trip to…