Today is the end of my 9-month Fulbright grant to teach solutions journalism in Bangalore. I concluded my work at Mount Carmel College when I…
Category: Living in India
We just returned from an 8-day trip to the southern state of Kerala, where we spent four days in Kochi at the annual Central and…
The cost of living in India is about 65 percent less than that in the United States, and currently one US dollar exchanges to about…
They’re called Trial Rooms here, and there’s probably never been a more accurate adjective for them. {Whoever calls them fitting rooms is lying. Nothing fits…
We recently returned from a 3,214-mile round trip journey to the state of Rajasthan in northern India. We spent a week exploring the cities and…
I imagine India as blazing hot. How’s the weather? It’s true that most of India is blazing hot, but there are a couple places in…
This is one variation of my morning. I’m writing this as we speak. Breast pump is operating (“feed right, pump left” I repeat to myself…
It feels as though a few things I value a lot – time blocking, time management, organization, a schedule – have been thrown in a…
It’s been just two weeks since we left Texas, and our new house feels like home in all the ways home feels. There are people…
Our first 24 hours in India are behind us and, of course, I’m reflecting on the journey with a newborn in tow. There’s no fancy…