Lakshmi Iyer's Blog, page 44
July 10, 2018
I Am Strength Anthology
A week after I got back from the Yale Writers’ Workshop, I meticulously went through notes I had made and feedback from my peers. I decided to focus on a piece I had written on motherhood called Motherhood, Cleaved. This essay was born out of the realization that the kind of love I feel toward […]
July 8, 2018
Inured
My desk has stacks of paper. Yellow envelopes filled with sheets I need to fill, a checklist of largely unchecked items, bills that need follow up, a snowman with one arm and a caption that says I’d melt for you. Each day, I sit at my desk, focusing solely on the words on the screen. […]
July 4, 2018
Petulance
The resentment pushes out of me in waves, undulating with the intensity of the feeling. I hang up the phone and stalk away. I know I am being childish, that the person on the other end of the line has no clue why I feel this way. Yet, at this moment, all I can feel […]
July 2, 2018
Interview: Indian Express
A couple of weeks back, Anuradha Verma of The Indian Express reached out asking if I could answer a few questions for an interview to be published in the Parenting section of the newspaper. I agreed and it was published today. The link to the interview is here.
June 29, 2018
Outpacing Me
Ammu hands out small disco bands when I ask her to. Laddu is trying hard to be still as I first part and then make two braids on either side of her face. Pattu is drying herself and preening in front of the mirror. The changes have been gradual, creeping up until one day they […]
June 25, 2018
Summer Of Impatience
Laddu runs into the study as I sit, brows furrowed looking at my incomplete book proposal wondering what on earth am I signing up for. She holds out her old Halloween costume, a faded Olaf. “Amma, akkas are playing dress up. How could I dress up?” I am tempted to correct her but I smile […]
June 22, 2018
Siblings And Cousins
I scroll through my photos feed on IG and on impulse feel the need to upload one. Browsing through the pictures on my phone, I pause, move and come back to one picture. My sister is looking away in this one, her posture is relaxed, she is focused on brushing my daughter’s hair. Laddu is […]
June 15, 2018
Documentary Update
A while ago I wrote about Chithra the filmmaker who was interested in making a documentary on open adoption featuring our family. I haven’t shared much before this because there was nothing much to say. At this point, the working title of the film is Our Daughters which seems very fitting to our situation. If […]
June 12, 2018
YWW: The End
We milled around a small table. Suitcase, backpacks, bulky handbags on the floor around us. I was leaving and trying to hug everyone in my group. I left feeling dazed, not quite sure what I was feeling. The suitcase rattled behind me, its wheels doing overtime as I walked on the cobbled walkways of Stiles […]
June 11, 2018
YWW: Session II – Day Three
As much as I sound like a broken record, today has been an intense and long day. We did workshop the last set of essays in the morning and had a fascinating discussion on the publishing world after. There were two craft talks. One by Allegra Goodman (who is super good at what she does) […]
