Ravi’s sister Nutan is one of my best friends. We like to say that we have traded places – she lives in the United States and has become an integral part of my family there while I [...]

I haven’t quite finished with all the stories about my family and Mom’s death. A friend of mine – Karen Brandow – also lost her mother recently. In the eulogy, she [...]

And here’s the man himself, with Pinky again. I don’t know how or why we got so lucky. Avinash is truly one of the best photographers in India and he acts like it is a privilege to [...]

I got an email from my sister Lucy today titled “Blogs”. Inside she said “We have to do better at them! Both of us!” (Hers is http://lucycuseo.blogspot.com/, by the way, [...]

Here’s my brother Owen. Dad and I went to his place last night for dinner – such a wonderful evening! Owen and Sally have four beautiful, darling children whom I get to know better on [...]

img_9413.JPG Dad isn’t much into traveling these days. He gets tired easily and he hasn’t the desire or the interest that once took him around the world (to Africa, Portugal, Ireland, Israel and [...]

Being at home with Dad this month has meant many trips down memory lane – some metaphorical, some actual. We went to Fall River several times – where both of us were born, though he [...]

Mary seems to defy nature – she grows more beautiful every time I see her. At Mom’s funeral, her eyes shone with tears and with love and all of us felt so lucky that she had been [...]

I have already written about all that Lucy did for Mom while she was alive. Here’s what a friend of hers told her about what Mom is going to do for her: Lucy, I was very sorry to hear about [...]

All of us together, without Mom. Such a poignant photo, such a sad moment. We wanted to mark it, but we could hardly bear to admit what was now our truth: Mom is no longer here with us. We are [...]