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St. Vincent & the Grenadines
I just learned that yesterday on Thursday April 8, 2021, the La Soufrière volcano has erupted in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Southern Caribbean. Devang and I visited this beautiful island in January of 2019. It was our last international trip before the pandemic. From what I can find in the news so far,…
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In the Kitchen: Mango Pops
I am not sure if there is another group of people who are as obsessed with mangoes as me and my fellow Indians. And for good reason because there is little in this world that compares to the taste of a perfectly ripe mango. (Side note: American supermarkets usually don’t carry mangoes grown in India.…
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Full of purpose and still lost
Last summer I was reading Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberget’s The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee when a quote by Jackie Kennedy Onassis really jumped out to me. On parenting and family life, Jackie says: If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do…
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That in which Arjun Cooks Dinner.
One recent evening when my children weren’t being as grateful (and quick) as I would have liked at eating their perfectly good homemade dinner, I challenged them to cook something better. Well, why don’t you cook then, I had snapped back after their umpteenth complain of what I could have done differently. The next day…
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Handpicked
Spring is in the air and yellow daffodils are everywhere I look. It’s hard not to get excited around this time of the year. If you know me, then you know how much I love going on bike rides and collecting wild flowers on the way (it’s a hobby I discovered during last year’s lockdown).…
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