a memoir of etchings and wanderingshttps://www.therovingquill.com/en-cahttps://www.therovingquill.com/2023/01/run-through-twenty-twenty-two/https://www.therovingquill.com/2023/01/run-through-twenty-twenty-two/Yesterday I happened across a meme stating that January 6 is the last day to say ‘Happy New Year’, and I took it as a sign that my 2022 wrap-up could work aroun...Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:18:05 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2022/11/a-year-among-the-wildflowers/https://www.therovingquill.com/2022/11/a-year-among-the-wildflowers/It seems like just the other day that I was living amid cardboard boxes and tripping over rolls of packing tape. All in the efforts of trying to wrap our lives...Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:25:53 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2021/08/catching-up/https://www.therovingquill.com/2021/08/catching-up/Is it unprecedented to write a rundown of the year in August?Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:24:34 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2020/05/indrani-park/https://www.therovingquill.com/2020/05/indrani-park/One of the scariest things about living miles away from home is that call or text to tell you that someone you loved won't be there the next time you make your visit home.Mon, 25 May 2020 20:38:11 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2020/02/nostalgia/https://www.therovingquill.com/2020/02/nostalgia/One of my fondest memories of going home is usually sitting down with old photo albums and spending hours poring over the faces.Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:47:47 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2019/03/some-good/https://www.therovingquill.com/2019/03/some-good/Familiarity breeds comfort. I talk about this quite often because I don't only believe it, I live it.Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:21:25 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2018/08/august-in-the-midwest-%F0%9F%8F%9C/https://www.therovingquill.com/2018/08/august-in-the-midwest-%F0%9F%8F%9C/I’m quite aware that I am probably one of the 12 people in the world who still use the Swarm (erstwhile Foursquare) app. But this morning it reminded me that it...Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:30:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2017/10/minnesota-nice/https://www.therovingquill.com/2017/10/minnesota-nice/One of the first fun memories I have, after moving to the States was the July fourth trip that I took to Minneapolis. It began not very different from several m...Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:44:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2017/05/from-may-to-may/https://www.therovingquill.com/2017/05/from-may-to-may/I can barely remember what I was feeling, this time last year. I recall a vague anxiety with a pinch of excitement. But that’s about it. But I know for sure tha...Sun, 28 May 2017 08:33:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2017/02/about-a-story/https://www.therovingquill.com/2017/02/about-a-story/Over eight months ago, I enrolled myself in school and moved to 'Murica. Much has happened in the United States since - more on that later - but one of the thin...Tue, 14 Feb 2017 02:28:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2017/02/restart/https://www.therovingquill.com/2017/02/restart/After publishing a whopping three posts in all of last year, I promised myself in January of 2017 that this year would be different. It had to. But all of the f...Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:25:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2016/05/masalama/https://www.therovingquill.com/2016/05/masalama/Whenever I was asked the casual “So, where are you from?” question, I found myself debating the answer in my head. Should I say Calcutta, where I was born? Or...Thu, 26 May 2016 14:45:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2016/05/this-time-next-week/https://www.therovingquill.com/2016/05/this-time-next-week/...everything will be different.Sun, 22 May 2016 15:54:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2015/12/roundup/https://www.therovingquill.com/2015/12/roundup/This year hasn’t been the most productive for the blog, but I’ve tried to keep it alive by documenting my travels and random thoughts. As is tradition, I though...Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:19:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2015/12/where-is-the-love/https://www.therovingquill.com/2015/12/where-is-the-love/I know it's that time of the year where all is good and jolly, but for a while I have struggled with some negativity and I thought that now would be a good time...Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:09:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2015/12/on-days-when-nothing-seems-right-just-write/https://www.therovingquill.com/2015/12/on-days-when-nothing-seems-right-just-write/Sun, 06 Dec 2015 10:18:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2015/09/counting-blessings/https://www.therovingquill.com/2015/09/counting-blessings/It just dawned me on a few days ago that this September marked three years of my move from India to Oman. It was a dizzying thought, to picture how the time had...Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:36:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2015/08/south-african-sojourn/https://www.therovingquill.com/2015/08/south-african-sojourn/For years I have been intrigued by the largest and oldest inhabited continent on the planet, the melting pot of culture and civilization from time immemorial, t...Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:13:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2015/07/23-2/https://www.therovingquill.com/2015/07/23-2/Oprah Winfrey once said, and I would like to quote and edit:Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:34:00 GMThttps://www.therovingquill.com/2015/07/paris-of-the-east/https://www.therovingquill.com/2015/07/paris-of-the-east/They say that the friends you make at school and college are the ones who last a lifetime. I wasn’t so fortunate during school, but met the most wonderful peopl...Sun, 05 Jul 2015 01:39:00 GMT