I am young. I am healthy. Cold season takes my husband down multiple times, but barely gives me a sniffle. So when I woke up on the morning of my 31st birthday feeling as though I’d been mowed down by a Zamboni, I knew that something was very, very wrong. However, it was hard for me to put my

I can still taste the bitterness in my dry mouth and smell my kurta, a traditional Indian dress. My plane landed at dinnertime on a Saturday night in late July. My belly was empty; I was restless from the 16-hour flight and anxious to take a shower and sleep off the reverse culture shock. I was

That Thursday was a day of firsts. My sister, who had recently gotten engaged, planned to go wedding dress shopping, and I wanted to be there for her. She had made an appointment to look at dresses as late as she could for my work schedule; the shop was a few hours away. I wanted to be by her side

I live in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the United States. This is a city where a $2,000 per month studio is considered a “good deal.”About a year ago, I was living in a $3,200 one-bedroom apartment with my boyfriend (the only way I can afford this kind of rent is by having

Vertigo is the unpleasant sensation of feeling violently drunk when you are quite sober. The room spins, you can’t balance, and there’s a strange feeling in your head. Sometimes it happens very suddenly and without warning, which, unfortunately, is what happened to me on a Tuesday in November of