The year that transformed my love of books and reading It is the time of the year when everyone, mostly everyone famous, publishes their lists. Favorite books, favorite movies, music, and so on. …

My perspective based on my life’s experiences. I am an average person. I am a person of average intelligence, looks, average everything. In fact, I spent a majority of my teenage life lamenting my average existence until one day I decided to embrace it and move on. …

My perspective based on my life’s experiences. I had returned home after a 2 week visit to India to help my mom recover from knee surgery. While I was away, my husband was in charge and took excellent care of the needs of our teenage children. When I got back…

An interesting observation I make each time I visit India is how much people care about my weight. I find it amusing that my family, friends, even perfect strangers go out of their way to tell me how ‘fat’ or ‘heavy’ I am. There isn’t a blessed soul that is…

Or should I say, I couldn’t find an apt title for what I am about to share with you. I considered a few titles, ‘Finding God’, ‘God found me’, ‘How my religion helped me find myself’ etc etc. I respect everyone’s religious views and preferences. That is not what this…

A few thoughts on Mother’s Day 2022, on the 2nd anniversary of founding The Accidental Ally. “Are you doing this work because you have a child with a disability?”, I was speaking with a mother of a young woman with Autism. She was interested in my work with The Accidental…

A story about acceptance. About 3 months ago, during one of my rare visits to Target, I stumbled onto a very neat stack of white tees. Something prompted me to reach for them. I ended up buying five long sleeve white tees and five short sleeves white tees. This is…

I would like to tell you a story about the power of ONE! I have been inspired to share this story with you because of my work. I have been thinking deeply about a few things that I have been working on, things that have been keeping me up at…

The things we think and are not afraid to say. I have been thinking about writing a manifesto. I don’t know why, but it has been swirling around in my brain for several months. I figured that since today is Tuesday, “2/22/22” or “two’sday”, a ubiquitous palindrome (because it works…