It took them two years to find a home. Exactly as they had wanted. “Location, location, location,” she remembered her friend in real estate saying. The house was two blocks away from a park, two blocks away from the bus, less than a ten minute walk to the train station, the waterfront along the Hudson…
Month: December 2020
A festival of light
As a child, I waited for Diwali all year. Mom would be dressed in yellow. I always thought she was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. I still do. Small-boned, wrapped so elegantly in the several yards of cloth that most Indian women wear, called a sari. She’s dressed in yellow this year…
Snowflakes
It begins snowing today. You look at the window, and there they are, dancing outside, flurry-ing and twinkling. Little ballerinas, these snowflakes in their white tutus with just a touch of holiday glitter. Your first visit from them this year. You can hear their laughter, the excited twitter. You take the dog for a walk…
Calcutta Chow 