...Of things I can't forget, journeys on a jet...Our wond'rous week in New York and Miami and Santa Fe and Bermuda and Bahamas and Macaca-madness...How lucky I was...

I have so much to be grateful for this thanksgiving...the list could go on but if I was to think of the top 10 things that I'm grateful for in my life without a doubt they are...

1. My family: For my mother who's unfailing faith in me, good cheer and support can only guarantee a victory. My dad who for the first time in years I realize has turned out pretty cool. For being open hearted and open minded and above all loving me. My little brother who is little no more for turning into a big strong and smart grown up who has turned out to be just fine and far more responsible than I give him credit.

2. My friends: For Ashini, Shivani, Nita, Rekha, Rahul, Karthik, Andrea, Margherita, Jessica, Wendy for their wit and humor and laughter and style and unfailing support no matter what.

3. For a little critter that lives with me...Spartacus for his incredible cuddle factor, for those googly eyes, for his goofy antics and energy and for always purring no matter how much I'm growling.

4. For my NEW Home, for making me wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and still think WOW.

5. For work, for having a job I love and am often surprised I get paid for. For the best boss a girl could ask for and a company any woman would be proud to be part of.

6. For WNYC, for enriching my life in ways I never thought possible, for giving me culture and humor and politics and arts and music and food and books and Car Talk.

7. For Sepia Mutiny, for reminding me, assuring me and bringing out the brown in me in ways I didn't know existed.

8. For New York City. Everyone should be lucky to live here at some point in their life. For it's insanity and noise and culture and passion. It's a wild and warm city and one I can't imagine not being part of. Forget Paris, I will always have New York.

9. For being a WOMAN, for being a strong woman, and for all things in my life that contribute to it.

10. For being an AMERICAN and an INDIAN. What a wonderous combination it is. I'm thankful for having realized I can be both and not one or the other. Thankful for being brown in my non Indian life and for being American in my Indian life. What a beautiful, complex, difficult, messed up, interesting and full of life way of existence.

Tonite I went out in the pouring rain and had dinner with my family and it was just lovely.

Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving.