Becky Blab

I am grateful to be featured on the Lessons from the Monk I Married Blog as part of the “31 Writers, 31 Lessons” series. Here is an excerpt: Most of us know the familiar tale that we came out of Africa, but do we really understand what this means? This means that all of our [...]

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        In pure immigrant fashion, last weekend we moved from one sub-let apartment in Astoria, New York, to another, bigger one via pushcart. The big dent in the plan was Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene, who had yet to rear her not-so-ugly head and the preparations were on in full force throughout the paranoid [...]

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On Wednesday I attended the Regional Conference and Market Place for Labour Migration hosted by the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Jaipur. My previous colleague now works there and invited me. Compared to the last conference I attended one month ago in Silicon Valley, (the TSG summit) this crowd was much less plugged in–and people were [...]

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Holi was on Sunday, and it commemorates the end of the winter season (it falls on the spring solstice). For me, though, it’s as if we skipped spring all together and I’m catapulted into summer. All 35°C/ 95°F of it. Since last summer was particularly rough–we lived in our bedroom and hardly ventured out–we’re taking lots [...]

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[youtube EQb9vDLe4IU&NR] This post is dedicated in gratitude to all of the wonderful women in my life. I feel so lucky to have known so many strong, intelligent, talented and truly beautiful women. Happy women’s day to you all! I know it’s not Mother’s Day, but I feel the urge to thank my mom who [...]

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