Editorial Concepts by AnnElise

The I in Imakinations, Inder, came from New Delhi, India, to study Engineering in Germany and then went on to UT Austin, Texas, for a PhD. AnnElise, from a small town near Munich, Germany, also went to Longhorn Country in search of Texas-German culture. When the Bavarian cowgirl met the Makin, a Sikh who could speak the Platt-Deutsch "Moin, moin," at the Alma Mater (not the "Alm"), the Longhorns broke into a stampede and carried them off. Some 15 years and a couple of major career moves later, the Makins have blended into a unique masala. Priyanka was born in Seattle, two minutes before Valentine's in 1997, and Susmita came to us in 2003 from Mumbai, after a two-year pregnancy with red tape and a three-month labor of release. Our nations are Germany, India, and the United States. Aren't we blessed to be able to fly broomsticks in all three cultures? Five, if you count Bavaria and Texas.