My Current Obsessions

These are my three favorite children on earth right now (l. to r.) Piyush, Raunauk, and Shaswat. The other day Shaswat said, "Lindsey ma'am, when I graduate class 12, I will come live with you in America." I replied, "Oh? And when will you graduate class 12?" "In 10 years," he said.

I read in a recent issue of The Times of India that Madonna is adopting a one-year-old Malawian boy. Is this true? (I'm a little out of the current events loop.) So I was thinking, I would be totally in vogue and in the company of the likes of Madonna and Angelina Jolie if I came home from India with a child.

On an unrelated topic, in the same issue of the Times, the front page carried the headline, "US seeks to rule the universe." I thought, My God, George Bush has gone and declared himself king of the universe. What else has happened since the last time I had my hands on a newspaper? (I read on to find out that he hasn't yet declared himself master of the universe, but that the U.S. is trying to limit the rights to space.)