The iconic Taj Mahal shot …
Ma holds the Taj in her hand …
Mother and daughter finally together in India …
And the legendary love story …
Mumtaz Mahal was a beautiful, sharp-witted girl, who sold silk in the local market. Shah Jahan was the young, soon to be Emperor, who fell madly in love with her. And married her [...]
Indian women look like tropical flowers … typically seen worn on the same day: a saffron colored sari with tomato red prints combined with an aqua scarf, beaded gold shoes and pink bindi.
The pop music the Indians listen to, that many use as their cellphone ringtones, is as equally loud and happy.
All sorts of animals [...]
It’s hell waking up in the morning.
For a couple of minutes, before I even open my eyes, there’s the intense pain of feeling empty and totally, absolutely alone. What’s the point in living? Is there any reason to get up? Am I really me without him? Who am I?
I think all my friends who have husbands or wives [...]
There’s this gay guy in the office who always gets fabulous boyfriends. Not the teenybopper one night stand types but serious, thinking ones, the kinds you could imagine dating if you yourself were gay.
I asked him last week how he finds them.
Then I suddenly thought to ask him what was wrong with me. What was stopping me from finding equally fabulous [...]
I love the start of summer!
Makes me feel so alive.
Warm weather brings simple, basic pleasures … the sun in your eyes, skin that starts to burn, droplets of sweat trickling all over.
Then there are the pleasures that come with the struggle to beat the heat … walking into a cool shower at full blast or rubbing your eyelids with [...]
And why I’m outing myself on this blog right now, I don’t know. Except that this is something I have to say at least once in my life.
I really, really loved her.
This happened all of 20 years ago, yet I still remember some of the time I spent with her as if it took place yesterday.
Thea was 21 [...]
