Cathleen Kavita
I wish everyone could have a daughter like our Cathleen. This summer, she came home for three months and we were all so excited about the prospect of so much time with her. One of her main reasons for coming was that she wanted to spend time with Moy Moy. After her illness in January, […]
Linda Upadhyaya
Today is Linda’s birthday. Had she lived, she would have been 49 today – 08-08-08. A special day, a very special woman. It still seems unbelievable that she has gone. We think of her almost every day, remembering all that she did for us and for our children, and we bless her memory and pray […]
Morning Time Blues
Moy Moy just graduated from KV School to our Centre for Vocational Training! She loves the jazzy new uniform (she has been wearing KV red for 12 years and she is fed up with it) and is thrilled about meeting all her old friends again (Sakshi, Arjun and Vishal, for instance) and particularly about being […]
How Memory Works: Duke Duchscherer and Carin Duchscherer
Memory is a fluid, mysterious thing and often what we think we remember may be incomplete, in error or totally backwards. Sometimes a piece of important information can be left out of the story and when – by luck or design or happy discovery – it surfaces, it can be an occasion of wonder and […]
Chrissie
My family is big on the Chris names. We have Aunt Chris, Christopher and Chrissie (my older sister), and if Lucy had been a boy, she would have been named Christian! Chrissie has played with her version of it for years – she has been Chris, Cris, Chrissie and Christine and she does all of […]
Backstage Man
In every family, there are always people who stay in the background and quietly make things happen. Christopher is one of those. Chris lives in Miami with Mom’s twin, Aunt Chris. He is her primary caregiver, making sure that she has every little thing she needs. It restricts his life considerably, but he seldom complains […]
Nutan Gupta, God’s Elder Sister
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 live in India and have become the same to her family here. My family is always thanking me […]
More on Family
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 included this story, which her mother had asked to have read at her funeral: “I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my […]
Avinash Pasricha
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 come and work with us for the Karuna Vihar calendar every year. This time, I watched him like […]
Back at Home
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, and it’s wonderful.) Anyway, it was a point well taken. I am back at home and have hurtled straight through jet-lag (which I normally like […]