Recently, I got engaged. Whenever I started to tell people about the complications of planning an inter-cultural wedding, I often heard the refrain, “You should write a blog!” I didn’t like the idea of writing a blog about gowns and flowers, so I didn’t take the suggestion seriously at first.
But I’m at an interesting point in my life. I make my living as a scientist, but I’ve also written for many years. Like so many writers, I’ve been curious about the blogosphere. And now I have the challenge of balancing work, writing, and family…and temporarily, wedding planning.
I’d like this blog to outlive the engagement. I’d hope to write for a long time about the negotiating the perspective that comes from growing up and living as a minority in a diverse community. It’ll be about more than what color sari I’m wearing.
A little background detail: My family’s from India and muslim. We left India when I was still in diapers, and I split my childhood between Toronto and L.A. So there hasn’t ever been a time in my life when I wasn’t negotiating the cultural landscape. Right now I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. My fiancée was born and raised here in the States (Wisconsin, specifically).
I remember when I was growing up that it used to feel like they were multiple worlds I inhabited. It’s not really multiple worlds, although sometimes it feels like it. It’s a global world, with all the anxieties and advantages that entails.
