There’s a lot of hemming and hawing about New Year’s resolutions: the last few years it’s become fashionable to be against them. Ninety percent of them are broken, experts say, and gyms love January as a month they rake in more income than at any other time of year. If that’s what you’re looking for, [...]
We Don’t Have to do it Your Way
by Mohanalakshmi on July 26, 2011 in Culture
I was having lunch with a friend the other day and as our nearly one year old boys toddled around her house, we got to chewing the salads and also the fat of life as close friends (and it must be said, women) do. Everything from business ideas to family drama was on the table [...]
On Being Abnormal
by Mohanalakshmi on March 5, 2011 in Uncategorized
It happened again at a dinner party last night. Someone invariably was talking about a trip they went on where the local people were normal. And the city was normal. And the economy was normal. The latest land to be praised was Oman. Now granted, I’ve been to Oman and it beautiful, lush and green; [...]
Next Stop: Happiness
by Mohanalakshmi on January 16, 2011 in Uncategorized
For 2011 one of my main priorities will be people not just goals. While goals are important and I’ve written about goal setting elsewhere on this blog, this year will be more about who I am to those around me in addition to what I can do for them. This is a major shift for [...]
Being on Vaction in Your City
by Mohanalakshmi on July 21, 2010 in Uncategorized
My mom is visiting us as we await the birth of our baby and she is the first visitor we have had in a year. The last one was stopping through on her way back from Nepal with a boyfriend and sister. It was one night and two days — in the midst of a [...]
An Unwelcome Acquaintance
by Mohanalakshmi on February 20, 2010 in Uncategorized
The secret to my sauce has been simple: never give up and always do what needs to be done today, now. In part these two things came from my upbringing and then were reinforced over young adulthood. My parents, despite wanting to do better for us, often put dreams away into the distant horizon. “One [...]
Inciting Change
by Mohanalakshmi on August 30, 2009 in Uncategorized
In college we had a friend who didn’t like change; avoided it like the plague and dread most people reserve for finding out that their leg has to be amputated. But having left my birth country at the age of four, I only knew life as constant change. Every few years my family moved somewhere [...]
No longer a “white” house
by Mohanalakshmi on November 13, 2008 in Uncategorized
If you’ve seen the email forward of the guy on the bike, riding through traffic, on the back of his t shirt is the slogan "It’s called a white house for a reason" then you know some of the fallout from the election results. People are justifiably upset by this slogan and it’s racist underpinnings. [...]
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