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You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.
– Miriam Adeney
Get her OUT of the Kitchen!
Saturday – 19-June, 11pm Today was a lovely day. After recovering from a bout of tummy problems last night, I spent some time relaxing around this morning before friends Michelle and Deepak picked me up. (Go figure, I eat crazy
Exhibitionist
Sunday – June 20, 2pm While eating breakfast this morning, Balu stopped by to visit and told me about an art and handicraft exhibition just a five-minute walk from the hotel. Oh, what fun! I just returned from a two-hour
My Peeps.
Sunday – June 20, 3pmIn this blog I talk frequently about my ‘family’ here at the Ashok. Today after the Exhibition I stopped in for a quick bite of lunch and the Baluchi Boys asked for a picture with me
I believe I met my match.
Sunday – June 20, 6pmSome of my Indian colleagues at work joke that I am ‘turning into an Indian’ (with all the jewelry, shoes, clothes, etc.) – and I admit that every visit I’m a little more bold in going
Dr. Mom
Tuesday – June 22, 9am Well, I’m sick. Head-chest-throat snotty sick. Being sick in India is a national emergency, and so Balu took note of my condition this morning and promptly sent the driver on a detour on my way
National State of Emergency
Wednesday – June 23, 9pm I mentioned that I have been sick… and it has drawn a lot of attention. I had no less than five different medications brought to my office yesterday as suggested remedies. Of these, at least
Rough Start
Thursday, July 8 – 10:30pm in Dallas It was a perfectly normal day … Just like any day I’m flying to Beijing… (read that with sarcasm) I should have known when an unidentified 800# came across my cell while I
T-Shirt & Toothbrush (all you need)
Saturday, July 10 – 9am [Whine Warning.] I shouldn’t complain. After all, I got my beloved Starbucks before boarding the plane… It was my last piece of happiness for the day. Crazy re-routes. Then 11 hours from Los Angeles to
Another Brick in the Wall
Saturday – July 10, Noon Well, I still want a mulligan. In golf, that’s a ‘do-over’ when you totally totally blow a shot (and you’re playing with buddies who don’t mind this breaking of the rules). I had really looked