Rekha's Ramblings

  One of my friends called me this week. She is that friend who I do not necessarily talk to every day but who understands me, who has known me for a while. We stay connected with each other with sporadic text messages, Christmas greetings etc. And although we would like to chat with each other more often, we just do not have that kind of spare time. For starters, we live in two different time zones and then she works full time, and I am a mother of three which is more than a full-time job. This time however, we had a few minutes to spare for each other, got talking, and had an actual conversation without interruptions.     After we had caught up on whatever was going on in our lives, she told me the real reason she had called me. She said she was listening to this song on radio," I don’t need a hand to hold, I got that fire in my soul" and she could not stop but think of me, about me. She said I was the only Indian friend she had with a fire in my soul, who wa...

  M y 9 year old nephew asked," Who is Thoreau ?" I, "he is a philosopher."  He," what does that mean?" I ," someone who lives alone, never marries , never has children , lives in the wild is a philosopher and he gets to advise the rest of us on how to live our lives, that advice is philosophy ." Philosophy rambling on this Monday!!!

 Road trips are so much fun now that my children are at such an age where they can take care of themselves; from hauling their own luggage, using the restrooms unsupervised, applying sunscreen to carrying their own water bottles and hydrating as needed.  Most of the stress that comes with traveling was already relieved as we were travelling within the USA where we can drink water out of the fountain (trust me, we have travelled to different places where the water is not safe to drink) plus the major stressbuster is dialing 911 if needed.  People in the US do not know how privileged and fortunate they are to have this service. This year’s road trip was going to take us to American southwest, through the states of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.   This road trip began with the usual airport and airline drama but ended with happy and precious memories. Whenever we travel somewhere which includes flying, there is always drama associated with it, for e.g., flight d...