RAJI WRITES

In cold months, I wear The sweaters, caps and scarves you knitted, Feeling your love In their warm embrace. I picked the yarn, We picked...

Harry Potter is huge in this household. I mean, HUGE! Back in the day, when each book first came out, my friends and I would devour it in...

She picks words as she picks popcorn from a bowl, without looking, without effort. She threads them together as she threads beads into...

Sheryl Sandberg’s and Adam Grant's recent book, "Option B, Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" is a moving account of...

I saw Mira Nair’s musical “Monsoon Wedding” at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I took my 11-year old daughter to see it with me. She has...

"Dear Santa," my daughter wrote, "this is what I would like for Christmas. A stuffed animal tiger" Then she named a few books and...

If you, my beloved child Were in harm’s way If you were taken from me And I didn't know where you were If one day, you didn't come home...

In San Francisco, there is a restaurant in Chinatown on Washington Street at Kearny called Penang Garden. It serves...

Your laughter rings through the halls of academe bouncing off the benchtops, rattling the racks of tubes lifting my heart. I marvel at...