November 26, 2007

As Far Away From Society As We Can Get

Kamalla Rose Kaur
My great-grandmother, Doc, was one of the first women doctors in the USA. I imagine she couldn’t get a job anywhere else, so that is why she ended up moving to the Puget Sound (about as far away from society as she could get) to work at Western State Mental Hospital back before [...]

November 26, 2007

First Contact With Sikhi

Kamalla Rose Kaur
I heard about Sikhs for the first time from my Godfather when I was a child, age 9 or 10. My Godfather was a brilliant athropologist and the Dean of Graduate Studies at my hometown university. He was my father’s best friend and he and his family lived across the street from us, [...]