Are you ready to be in a relationship? — Ending my marriage was one of the toughest decisions I had to make in my life. It was almost ten years in the making, ten years of questioning myself before I was ready to make the move. Coming out of that marriage felt freeing. I was able to breathe again…

My one-year journey on Medium — I wasn’t much of a reader when I was a teenager, but I was always a writer. I used to keep a journal when I was in tenth grade until my parents discovered it, read through it, and were stunned by the ramblings of a teenage mind. I learned my…

Listening and learning with laughter — Stand-up Comedy I’ve watched innumerable episodes of comedy sitcoms over the years like Friends and Seinfield. I remember buying tickets to a Seinfeld live show for a few laughs two decades ago. It wasn’t until the past couple of years that I tuned in to stand-up comedy. The easy access to YouTube…

The importance of embracing all emotions that hit us — It’s been two years since I signed a separation agreement, which I initiated after 19 years of being married to a man I’d known for more than half my life. We are divorced now, but making the decision to end the marriage did not come easily. …

It never really leaves you, it just takes a different shape in your memory — I know I said I was done rehashing the past and writing about the heavy stuff from my failed marriage and divorce, but I find that the trauma comes back in different shapes forcing me to revisit it all over again. It took me a while to acknowledge my wasband’s…

There is no charge for dreaming and visualizing when it comes to travel — I had an illustrious travel log in 2022 visiting six countries when I was on a sabbatical from work. I doubt I can compete with that kind of time to travel in 2023, but there is no charge for dreaming. Antigua I’ve been to a few islands in the Caribbean before…

ZNMD = Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (You don’t get this life again) — We have one life and don’t know how long it will last. We live life either knowing what we want to go after or we wait for things to happen to us. Some things are reachable and in our control and others are not. Control the controllable! Zindagi na milegi…

The dish that unites the people of India — Regardless of your religion, caste, or creed, if you ask an Indian what the quintessential dish that is served when celebrating with family and friends is, the chances are they will say Biriyani! My apologies if it’s a gross generalization on my part, but I’ve grown up eating so many…

Do you eat to live or live to eat? — I live to eat! This week I had two people call me a “foodie.” I got into a deeper conversation about what it means to be a foodie and how it is different from being a food lover. A foodie is a term used in reference to a person who…