Baby pics. Of you, your kids, your grand parents. I guess toddlers are ok too. Continue reading
Families and Parenting
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Say hi to your racist uncle for me! Continue reading
I wanted to write something fun which has nothing to do with our current situation, but rather a look back on a time when there were no bike helmets, video games, or cellphones. When a good summer afternoon consisted of lounging in the shaded cool grass peeling each other’s sunburns and making clover chains. Good memories are to be cherished and held close. Continue reading
When I was growing up in New York, my dad, the earliest riser in the house, would drive to the deli to buy kaiser rolls, and the Sunday editions of the New York Times and the Daily News every week. If we were lucky, he would be in a good mood and buy us sugar coated jelly rolls and cook up a pound of bacon, as well. Continue reading
If you’ve heard about the backlash targeted at Lena Dunham recently, than you may have read a myriad of reactions to one singular passage Dunham describes in her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl . Dunham recounts an episode as a seven-year old where she touched her sister’s genitals and allegedly found pebbles therein — supposedly put there by the younger sibling as a prank. The description is graphic, visceral, and perhaps asks more questions than it answers about Dunham’s childhood, despite her claim that this was among the things she would do. Continue reading
Congrats to Cookies and Harry! Wishing you a wonderful life together. Continue reading
Do you ever get the feeling that your man would propose if only you could find a way to get pregnant? Well a new service has the answer for you, for $15 they will sell you a positive pregnancy test. Continue reading
The losses came quickly for me. My Dad, the rock of our family, had gone into the hospital with swelling in his legs and pain in his hip. At most, we thought that they would say that his heart disease had worsened and that he needed his other hip to be replaced. What we didn’t expect, was the diagnosis: metastatic cancer with only a couple of weeks to live. Continue reading
This is the final post of the series that examines topics from the perspective of the characters in the upcoming novel, The Paths of Marriage which will be for sale starting 1 October 2014.
“The Narrative of Marriage” is written from the point of view of the character, Pooja Deva.
Kids these days have no filter. Especially the hipsters. In fact, I believe one of their favorite hashtags is quite literally #nofilter. It’s ridiculous.
Many of those #nofilter hipster students of mine have somehow decided it’s okay to pry into the personal life of their professor (me) in lieu of researching traffic circles for their next Intro to Urban Studies assignment. So, in an effort to get the legions of intro students to put down their iPhones and pay attention to my brilliance, here is one aspect of the answer to that insufferably complicated question:
“Why did you agree to have an arranged marriage?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rnrpzU-2ZU
OMG! OMG! OMG! The television event of the year is here! Continue reading