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Week-at-a-Glance

Friday – 19-NovemberThere’s never enough time when I’m in Bangalore. The work week was a blur of meetings and activity. I went out one night with my guys to the Hard Rock Cafe. Another night I went to a friend’s…

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Dinner for a King… or just for TJL!

I have eaten every dinner except for last night at my hotel’s restaurant – the Baluchi. The staff have kind of adopted me – they save the same table for me every night. They had promised to feed me the…

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Last day at the office…

I haven’t been here long enough – next time I’ll shoot for another week or two. It was a lovely day after last night’s rain. One of my new friends brought me a string of jasmine – as I had…

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Dinner over the City

On this, my next to last night in the lovely city of Bangalore, my management team took me to dinner at a charming place called Ebony on the 13th floor of the Barton Center just off MG Road. A storm…

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I’m all in STITCHES!

Yep — I got “stitched” as they call it here. I posted a picture on Monday of the man doing the beadwork at the Punjabi designer where I’ve been referred to get my skirt made. It’s amazing, really… I ran…

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Reeeeeeeeeee-united! And it feeeeels so goood…..

If you don’t remember this Peaches & Herb classic, then you’re too young to be reading this adult-only blog. (Just kidding, Jackson and John!) So I’m replacing “Nope, Nyet, Nada” with “Yes! Oui! Si-si! After my first week at the…

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The Minimalist Approach Continues

Luggage Update – Friday morning, India:Frustration, Amazement, but Still No Luggage Otherwise… one of the local managers showed me around last night to some touristy places here in Bangalore. We went to MG Road – that would be Mahatma Gandhi…

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for Jackson and John

Dear Sweet Nephews,Jackson asked about the pool after I mentioned I was sitting near it while writing a blog posting on Wednesday morning. I have breakfast by the pool every morning, and it is quite pretty. There are beautiful blue…

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Day 2 – Alas, no…

Nope. Nada. Nyet. NO LUGGAGE. And it is technically Day 4, since I left the States on Sunday… and as of Wednesday night I’m still trying embrace this new minimalist approach. This calamity (and goodness knows I’m looking for that…

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Reflections on Day 1

This may get long… I’m sittin’ by the pool at 4:30 a.m., drinking strong coffee (has a bit of a chickory taste to it, for those of you who have had that particular coffee in New Orleans), watching the groundskeepers…

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