Author: Aparna Chintalapudi

Completely neurotic. Mother of two. Writer of poetry, reader of Harry Potter. Yeah, you'll love me.

You Speak American?

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The actor Will Smith, while being interviewed on the TV show Inside the Actors Studio, talked about how his grandmother often corrected him saying, “A ‘yawl’ is a boat!” She was, of course, referring to the popular pronoun “Y’all” that is used by many Americans. It is an expression which, when I first...

Left hemisphere, Right hemisphere, Left…

I lived in six cities over the entire course of my school life. My father didn’t have a transferable job. He simply changed jobs. Oh, I’m not complaining – I rather enjoyed it. I just figured that when I became an adult, I’d “settle down” and it would all come...