Lakshmi Iyer's Blog
July 22, 2025
Love Chaos Kin – AAIFF Screening in NYC on August 8th
Come check it out.
July 17, 2025
From Blog to Substack: A New Chapter Begins
With Love Chaos Kin having premiered, it feels like my writing/sharing journey has come full circle. I started micro-blogging somewhere between 2001 and 2003 and writing fairly regularly from 2004 on. What started as daily posts featuring stream of consciousness rants morphed into deep rumination of the state of my world. Writing about infertility and […]
July 5, 2025
Corrugation
My aching feet long for the warm water despite it being summer. I am in the shower and looking at the water cascading from the shower head when on impulse I look up. The cover that shields the plumbing from the onlookers eyes is loose. I reach up to adjust it and notice the rough…
June 30, 2025
Crossovers I Didn’t Expect
“… my little soda pop…” I am humming as I get ready to log in. The entire soundtrack of K-Pop Demon Hunters has been on loop this past week. The songs work well in the movie and work even better as an album to play on repeat. I am not even sure when was the…
June 28, 2025
Its Gonna Be Okay
I could be watching the next episode of the show (Reborn) I am currently watching. Instead, I am sitting, mid afternoon, with the sun a tad too harsh through the mullioned windows of our family room, watching Felix chase a ball round and round. I am cracking up with laughter as are my girls. It…
June 23, 2025
Breaching New Frontiers
“You can get drunk as much as you want to…” Ammu says playfully in conversation where her dad and I talk about her and her twin getting their learner’s permits and eventually their drivers license. “Ani! Neva…” I call out laughing as I do and head back to my oasis that is my study. “True!…
June 19, 2025
Where Angels Fear To Tread
Gigi and Grandpa E came into our lives in the spring of 2012. They are my older daughters’ birth great grand parents. I know it’s a mouthful. It started with one email that burgeoned into over five hundred emails and well over a thousand text messages over the course of thirteen years. Our relationship was…
June 14, 2025
Emulsion: Hope. Grief. Despair.
My feet ache from running around with our new pup Felix. I am wearing a dress with no pockets so my phone lies on some table somewhere. I glance at the notifications on the screen. A democratic lawmaker in Minneapolis is shot and killed. My heart feels heavy. It has been feeling heavy for a…
June 10, 2025
Bringing Home Felix
“Felix, come here. Come here baby…” Pattu’s high pitched baby talk sounds so good to me. Ammu is walking around with the twelve week old puppy draped over her shoulders the way one carries a human baby. Saathi is on the mattress in the dark, patting Felix through the bars of his crate late at…
June 7, 2025
Navigating Marriage: Intentionality in the Later Years
The foot massager emits a comforting whine as it kneads and presses my aching soles. I let out an audible gasp of relief even as I mindlessly flit between the various social media pages I have open in front of me. It is a Saturday morning. Amma is on the phone spilling tea. Saathi is…
