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 …
8 WAYS YOU KNOW THAT BLOGGING HAS TAKEN OVER YOUR LIFE! 1.) You’d rather blog than eat. Dinner is right there in front of you but you find yourself needing to finish your train of thought on the post you were writing. Otherwise the blog post may never be what you thought it should be. …
My Interracial/Intercultural Relationship Caused Me To Be Disowned By My Family This Relationship Is Not Allowed Growing up in an Indian family, I, Sachin became accustomed to hearing the normal stereotypes used to describe African-Americans, Asians, and a barrage of other ethnicities. From a family perspective, there wasn’t any ill my parents had with these ethnicities; …
INDIAN SNACK ATTACK Dating and now being married to an Indian man definitely takes a toll on your waist line. Why does it seem like it’s a prerequisite for EVERYTHING to be deep fried in oil/ghee (butter)? I know that you are thinking wait a second isn’t most soul food deep fried or laden in butter? You are a …
HOW HAVING A BABY CAN TURN YOU INTO A SOCIAL MEDIA MAVEN FROM RALEIGH, NC TO CHARLOTTE, NC After Amaya was born I was at a lost for how to find the infamous “mommy friend(s)”. The friends that my husband and I made when we first moved to North Carolina all lived in Raleigh, …
THEE BECOMING A STAY AT HOME MOM It has been 14 months since I left my job in Corporate America where I was renowned as “the best of the best”. I’m not going to lie and say that I don’t miss my job at times and the promise of climbing the ever growing Corporate ladder. …
FIRED FOR BEING PREGNANT During my 5th month of pregnancy I was fired from my job as a VP of sales for a start-up company. The laws in the U.S. did not protect me as an expectant mother because the company I worked for had less than 15 employees. Of course, I was traumatized with: 6.5/ 7 months under …
GUEST POST BY BETSY KANAGAWA MEET THE KANAGAWA’S… NO SHE’S NOT ADOPTED! I met my husband, Niko, in September of 2009. We met on a free dating website. His pictures on the site were decent. I remember when I met him for the first time in person thinking “He’s better looking than in …
CELEBRITIES IN AFRICA WE ARE HEADED TO SOUTH AFRICA! Who knew that the Gupta surname (no, not Sanjay Gupta) carried so much weight in Africa? After my husband had told me that we were heading to South Africa (Cape Town and Johannesburg), I couldn’t help but to lose all composer and start doing a “Momma, …
I am going to preface this post by saying that we enjoyed Texas. Half my family on my mom’s side of the family resides in Texas and they have done so for over a decade. Nonetheless during our time in the state we discovered some “unspoken truths” that really open your eyes to how cultural differences are not only …
