we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.
Foods are like men: some are good, some are bad, and some are okay only in small doses. But most should be tried at least once.
Perhaps I didn’t voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.
And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.
At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.
You don’t want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what’s out there now does – you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there’s something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.