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I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

A Perfect Example……………
I read a friend of mine’s post of Facebook the other day about her au pair quitting. It was a bad time for her not to have help and she was a little down. She went so far as to say “why me”? I felt bad for her but it was a little hard to delve too deep into sympathy. And I realized that it must be that way for many of you when I tell my tales of staff woes. Always, I try to be clear that I am thankful for the help I have and I appreciate the work they do. Most of the time, I do not complain. Really. No, really, I don’t. Even what I am about to share with you is not a complaint – it is just an example of why it is hard to add extra people to

The doors of Old Delhi……..
I just love the doors of Old Delhi – unfortunately, I do not know their histories – so I will leave it to you to imagine their stories……

Sugar and rice and everything spice………….
I have been hearing about the spice market and I have desperately wanted to go. It sounded like a magical place where the sights were only rivaled by the smells. Where wholesalers bargained out of burlap sacks and the color of the spices lit up the canvas of the market. Unfortunately, it felt a little more like Oliver Twist than Mary Poppins – but there were some beautiful sights to take in. On the way to the Spice Market in Old Delhi, the streets are lined with nut wallas – a walla is a merchant – so you guessed it – a nut walla sells nuts. There were dozens of them – one right after the other. Their displays were beautiful and tast

Seven Cities…………
Living in Delhi is so different from living in the U.S. for a million different reasons. One of the biggest reasons is simply the amount of history in the area. In the U.S., we marvel at what happened a few centuries ago – in Delhi, we walk among monuments that have existed for thousands of years. We hear stories that run through generations of rulers – sons who kill fathers and brothers to gain the throne and daughters and wives who manipulate events out of sight but never very far from the action. It is really the stuff that history is made of – and it rivals any soap opera that has every been written. There have been many rulers who tried to change