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From the Field to the Café: Job Applications Over Free Lattes
Monday afternoons used to feel heavy, but lately they’ve turned into something I actually look forward to. During baseball season, the Capital One Café gives everyone a free coffee on Mondays—and if you’ve got a Capital One card, it’s half price the rest of the time. That little perk has become the highlight of my…
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How I Got Here: Advocacy, Patience, and Love
Motherhood feels like stepping into a role I’ve been preparing for my whole life — though not in the ways I expected. Caring for my parents taught me lessons I could never have learned in books, workshops, or even my years of international development work. Lessons in patience, advocacy, problem-solving, emotional resilience — all of…
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Pregnancy Plans and Plot Twists
The Lived Experience of Pregnancy For most of my career, I’ve been a planner. In government and international development, you learn to thrive on spreadsheets, work plans, and five-year strategies. Everything has a process. Everything has a timeline. Everything has a fallback plan — or at least, it used to. Pregnancy laughed in the face…
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Inheritance, Not Rebellion
Category: Legacy & Love | Motherhood & Moxie When people hear I’m becoming a single mother by choice, they often assume it’s rebellion.For me, it feels more like inheritance. I come from a family of quiet revolutionaries. My parents were born into a conservative Bengali society where women were expected to follow, not lead, and…
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How I Got Here: From Bureaucrat to Baby Steps
“This wasn’t the plan — and yet somehow, it’s exactly where I’m meant to be.” If you told me five years ago that I’d be 22 weeks pregnant, unemployed, and starting over as a single mom by choice—I might have smiled politely while mentally updating my five-year plan to get back on track. Because I’ve…
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Bureaucrat to Baby Steps 