Happy Vishu 2023

Yesterday we celebrated Vishu, a holiday in Kerala to celebrate springtime, the new year, and new beginnings. I unfortunately did not do anything for the holiday in 2022 due to its being on a weekday and having to work, but I celebrated it for the first time with my own family in 2021. The day…

Our Trip to London & Paris

*Due to a technical glitch, this original post from October 2022 was reposted in March 2023. August was a fun month of more travel! After recovering from our trip to Singapore followed immediately by a family wedding in New Jersey, we had a couple of weeks to prepare for our family trip (minus my youngest!)…

Permanence and Place

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” [James Baldwin] I recently read a post about one writer’s experience with moving to university and living there. The post came at a good time, a time when I had been in the throes of packing and moving (again). Every year since starting college…