Dear diary, It’s 10:30 a.m. and it has been raining cats and dogs for forty-eight hours now. I have not laced up my North Face hikers snow boots and hit the trail, any trail, with my favorite four-legged mutt in fifty-five hours, ten minutes and four seconds. I’m feeling wired, and edgy from all the …
Curried eggs are an Anglo Indian delicacies most often enjoyed after a night on the town of Bangalore after “The Royal Challenge” Royal Challenge Scotch Whisky is the hard alcohol to drink when on vacation in Bangalore (Well for my boyfriend; I’ll stick to the very rare bottle of Australian white wine I managed to …
A coconut should not reduce you to tears. No one should be afraid of a coconut but once upon a time I tried to make homemade coconut milk and it was a very traumatic experience. It was December, 2017, a happy holiday season until I became terrified of coconuts. Terrified of peeling them actually, not …
Once upon a time in Idaho we came across a traffic jam. Unlike in southern California, this did not involve a bunch of people in Prius’s beeping at one in another to drive faster so they could get to Whole Foods right now. A traffic jam in Idaho involves 500 sheep clogging a mountain freeway. …
One year ago today we were waking up to eighty degree mornings in our rented apartment in Bangalore. There were no snowy mornings hiking through fresh powder. No walks with my dog in her fanciest sweater through alpine valleys. The only snowflakes we saw were the cheap plastic ones on our fake Christmas tree in …