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African Hare Krishna

What to write today? Perhaps a fun story? Here’s an “oldie” but a “goodie…” First, a preface: 1) My dad had a good friend in high school who was very smart, had high ambitions, and never really thought...

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Happy Saraswati Puja

P had an image of Saraswati linked to his Google-Chat today, and I wasn’t sure why. Then I noticed our friend had a “Happy Saraswati Puja!” up as her away message. So, since I work at a university, and...

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Holi and Lent

Last night we celebrated a friend’s birthday and Holi in true Nepali fashion… with momos of course! In between wrapping the potato/tofu/cabbage (or chicken for the meat eaters) mixture into wanton...

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Beef… It’s What’s For Dinner…

Beef was a big part of my childhood. As I’ve mentioned before, we were a real “meat and potatoes” kind of family. Both of my parents worked, cooking in general wasn’t a big thing in our house (aside...

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Happy Buddha Purnima

Today is a holiday celebrated by Buddhists around the world… Buddha’s birthday! I didn’t realize it was today until I saw the “day in pictures” on the BBC website which had one photo commemorating...

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Kumari and Indra Jatra

Yesterday was Indra Jatra. I know this only because I like to look at BBC’s “in pictures” each day and there was a photo from Kathmandu depicting the ceremony. I don’t know much about Indra Jatra (so...

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Dashain Articles

A few people (thanks AS and P) sent me articles today from the Nepali online journal Republica that I wanted to share: The first is called “Nava Durga: Nine incarnations of the Mighty Devi Durga” and...

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Sometimes a Church Just Doesn’t Feel Right

Our wedding has made life interesting the past few months. Sometimes I feel like a lot of the preparation has been a giant negotiation. We want everyone to feel included, and we want to make sure we...

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Someday I want to be in South Asia for Holi

I know that the festival of Holi happened a few weeks ago, and I meant to write a post like this at the time, but I was reminded of Holi last night while searching for photos on the internet and …...

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To Feel Something, Deeply…

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by a young woman who was doing research on Hindu/Christian couples for a paper she was working on at the Harvard Divinity School. She had found me through some of my...

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