My #MeToo Check
#MeToo has just broken out. I’m doing a check on all the ways this describes me. Yes, Me Too.
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#MeToo has just broken out. I’m doing a check on all the ways this describes me. Yes, Me Too.
I’m surrounded by question marks, in the shape of expensive gifts from you. I’ve discarded the funny, the cheesy, the lighthearted lines like you’ve done our laughs. But what about the Parisian box of songs? La vie en rose may as well be a life of thorns. I don’t like…
The nicest thing to happen was that I felt like myself in my own skin. The nature of the current is home.
I want to write something simply because the topmost post on this blog for too long now, has been a painful memory that victimised me. I am not actually dwelling in the past. The present has had me too caught up to even think about the future, let alone the…
I read ‘When I Hit You’ by Meena Kandasamy and it brought me back to an episode in my relationship with music.
April has been a lonely month. Housekeeping always is.
It’s housekeeping time in the relationships corner of my life. That means letting go of people who don’t behave like my equals.
New friends, new kinds of friendships, new definitions of support and ways to engage with others lead to a new me. New life?
Love. It got so much harder with age. The finding of it, the keeping of it. But mostly, being okay with it.
Marriage becomes a political boundary between people, turning them from friends into people needing security checks & visas.