Hurricane Fail! Part II HEADING TO OUR HOTEL IN HOUSTON, TX…THE PEACE BEFORE THE STORM As we approached the hotel we saw buildings boarded up on all sides with plywood. And the most amazing colors take over the sky. Colors we had never seen in the sky before with our naked eyes. Almost like art majestically …
Hurricane FAIL! Two weeks after returning home from our honeymoon my husband and I were off to start our new life together in Houston, TX. We had tearfully said goodbye to our parents, stuffed my husband’s pint size, silver Lexus with as many clothes and other must-haves as we could and commenced our 18 hour journey. I was going …
PINTEREST WHO NEEDS MARTHA STEWART LIVING WHEN THERE IS PINTERST? My Big Fat Indian Family, African-American Family, and numerous friends have already come for visits or are planning to visit us in Charlotte, NC this summer. Upon confirmation of an upcoming visit I am swiftly prompted to go to Pinterest to start planning. Pinterest has overtaken my past …
5 Reasons Why I Didn’t Change My Last Name After We Got Married…I Actually Waited 3 Years To Do It. It’s not that I didn’t want to change my last name after getting married. Or that I didn’t want to have to go through the arduous process of sending in forms and standing in lines …
WHAT’S FOR DINNER? PIPING HOT VEGETABLE BIRYANI & GRILLED INDIAN CHICKEN KEBABS At the onset of summer we love to fire up our grill for weekend dinners. This post is one of many involving some of the most amazing meals and recipe ideas my husband and I tweaked and made our own throughout the course …
Biracial Parenting. Why I Was Glad Our Daughter Looked Indian And Not… Let me preface this by saying, this post was not written to incite or advocate colorism. And my Black is beautiful for all those thinking or waiting to decree that I am self-loathing. I love being an African-American woman with a phenomenal culture and history. …
15 REMARKS INTERRACIAL/INTERCULTURAL COUPLES HATE TO HEAR Being in an interracial/intercultural relationship often is presented with double and triple takes, raised eyebrows, frowns, uncanny, funny, and sarcastic comments. Throughout the course of our 12 year relationship and 8 year’s of marriage my Indian husband and I (an African-American woman) have been confronted with some of the most random …
Culture: Are We More Alike Than Different? My husband and I have been together for 12 years, and married for 8 years. In this time, we have come to realize that culturally speaking we are more alike than different. I think that many people presume that since two cultures are different that there are no …
WAS MY HUSBAND PREGNANT TOO? A GUIDE TO LOSING THE DADDY WEIGHT Many pregnancy books really don’t discuss the prevalence of the daddy to be weight gain. Instead it seems to be an endless “hot topic” for mothers-to-be. Perhaps, for men this weight gain is considered as a controllable voyage into fatherhood and/or a new way …
Teaching a Toddler to Be Multilingual–Aap Kaise Ho (How Are you)? Me Thik Hu (I’m Fine)! We all looked on in astonishment after Amaya instantly repeated her Amma (grandmother in Hindi) say these words. Amaya was so afire from all the attention and praise that she again belted out, “Aap Kaise Ho? And everyone leaped …
