Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 06:54:38 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: "Aquestion of balance"


Yes! and Bravo to Radhika, Alpana, Aiko Anne Joshi, and all those 
others on this list whom I have yet to "meet"!  I'm in awe of your 
accomplishments, your motherhood, and your remarkable ability to remain 
"sisters" to all other women, share with us, AND maintain your balance! 
Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!! 

Warmly,

Manjusree  


You wrote: 
>
>Alpana and Manjusree ( and those of yyou who contacted me personally) 
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>thanks for making me realize how just human our lives are:-).
>
>FYI - for everyone's info - I haven't yet got my new email etc yet, 
but
>all this list and web stuff will be moving to Bowling Green State
>University spaces at least by December 1997. Of course I will 
officially
>send out the info to the lists etc and change the information sheets 
and
>so on...
>I will be working there in the Telecommunications dept starting this 
fall.
>Its "just" about 4 hours' drive from Pittsburgh.
>
>Manjusree - I too enjoy(ed) motherhood (and will continue to do so -
>long-distance momming or not)! When I say it is overrated - I
>mean that too but for me especially at times when i've felt (or feel) 
that
>everything is coming apart and falling through (whatever),my son has 
given
>me all the inner strength I need(ed) to get through situations.... He 
has
>also changed the way his father perceives gender relations,
>interestingly:-) - or perhaps graduate school - the two of us being
>students *and* parents and "poor" and without the backup of household
>workers - did that;-).
>
>Also - as Alpana and a couple of others on this list know - when that 
baby 
>goo-goo eyes and coos - all the anger and self-pity seems pointless:-)
>
>In spite of all my explicit and underhand bitching - I also have a 
very
>supportive and encouraging spouse, and my moving to Bowling Green and
>finishing a Phd would be impossible without that support and
>understanding. 
>
>
>Radhika
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