Author: ganga1996
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Bloganuary Day 13, A billion dollars!
The prompt for today: If you had a billion US dollars how would you spend it? Few months back I wrote something similar to this called If I win a lottery. Okay at that time it was just a million dollars. In that I had written if I had a million dollars I would go […]
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Bloganuary Day 12, Chores
What chore do you find the most challenging to do? Bloganuary took an about turn today with a simple prompt. From a vague prompt to a simple question. More than writing for the prompt, I have started enjoying reading other people’s take on the prompt. I can do this while my boy rides his bike or […]
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Bloganuary Day 11, Defining Success
How do you define success? I have heard this joke a lot. The operation was a success but the patient died. I feel the doctors have alone been put into this position and have been joked around. In reality death is not in our hands. When my son was applying for colleges this fall, I […]
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Bloganuary Day 10, 2023, A Book !
One third of the month is over. 10th Day of Bloganuary prompt: Has a book changed your life? As a young girl, I loved reading books. My Dad got me English crime novels from his office library and I enjoyed them. My grandmother’s friend got us Tamil novels, more social ones and my friend got […]
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Bloganuary 2023, Day 9, Gift.
Today’s prompt question for Bloganuary challenge. What is the most memorable gift you have received? Men are not sentimental. The love they show is different from what women expect. Over the years I have understood that and accepted it. These are few of my memories. These are not tangible gifts but more of memory that […]
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Bloganuary 2023, Day 8, Family!
Prompt question for today. How far back in your family tree can you go? Two years back, my brother called me one day and said he has done something interesting that I would love to know the result. Yes, he had his saliva tested and had done an extensive genetic testing. But it did not […]
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Bloganuary 2023, Day 7, Rain.
During the month of January I am doing a writing challenge and the prompt for today is: Write a short story or poem about rain. The rain was becoming a drizzle and the boy walked down the street after getting down from his school bus. He could see small puddles of water and the eight year […]
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Bloganuary 2023, Day 6, Writing!
During the month of January I am writing for prompts provided by WordPress. So today’s prompt is Why do you write? This one is easy. I started to blog because I wanted to do something for myself. I started this blog three years ago before the pandemic, but last January when I did Bloganuary Challenge […]
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Bloganuary 2023, Day 5, Joy
What brings you joy in life? Anything small can make us all happy. People do not understand that and keep going around in circles to find that happiness. Yesterday at his game of kickball with his friends my special one struggled to kick the ball couple of times and at the fourth attempt he succeeded […]
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Bloganuary 2023, Day 4, A treasure
What is a treasure that’s been lost? I have lost so many material things in my life. All those can be retrieved. When I had my younger one, we watched him like a hawk to see his growth milestones. He was a bit delayed in language and he was just picking up English. He never […]
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Bloganuary 2023 Day 3, Memory
What is the earliest memory you have? Okay, Bloganuary was a bit confused. One blogger did write for this propmpt yesterday and I was not surprised when this prompt showed up on my feed today morning! So as I write I feel like I am cheating a bit😃 since I had some time to think […]
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Being brave, Bloganuary Day 2, 2023
How are you brave? The dictionary meaning of brave as found online: adjective verb When I did Bloganuary last year, I remember some of the prompts and I felt they were too personal. So this is one prompt that is going to make me rip my bandage off. I do a personal blog and I […]
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Bloganuary 2023, Day 1. Goal?
All through January I hope to write to prompts given out by WordPress. I did it last year. Hoping I can do this year too. So here is the first prompt. Happy 2023 All! What is something you want to achieve this year? I am not a person who is in favor of New Year Resolutions. […]
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023
The past 24 hours have been cold. Let me say cold is an understatement and if you have seen on news about the cold weather in North America, it is completely true. But we were lucky that we did not have more than an inch of snow, but what fell down got completely stuck giving […]
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Christmas treats
Today was candy making class for my special boy. He loves cooking and he loves candies. Should be easy right? But there are some complications. He is surrounded in a place with candies and cookies and he has to be patient until he can eat one. My husband on the other hand didn’t want him […]
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Impatiens
For Cee’s Flower of the Day, a bit of throwback memory. I purchased these impatiens on a sale along with my special one many years ago. My boy who was still in school helped me carry the plants and the soil. When he was in school I planted these impatiens and all summer long these […]
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Social interactions
Yesterday afternoon I attended Sanskrit Day or Vishwa Samskrita Dinam, at our temple. The main point to be noted I did not have my family with me and I thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon to myself. After a long break from covid lockdowns, the day was celebrated and I was happy to see a good audience […]
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It was a cloudy day
It was a bit depressing yesterday evening. It maybe because we had a light rain all day yesterday and the temperatures hovered around 40 degrees with no sun. So by evening it felt as if there was no hope in the world. In reality a huge storm has been passing over bringing Tornadoes and snowstorms […]
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Changing of the guard? Fandango’s Provocative Questions #194
When was the last time you replaced your toothbrush with a new one? Do you have a regular schedule for getting a new toothbrush? Or like me, do you wait until you notice that it’s seriously frayed to start thinking about replacing it? If you all think this is an easy thing I bet it […]
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Olfactory
My special one was a bit sick during the middle of the week. So I kept him home most of the time and we did a 300 piece puzzle. It was a bit difficult since it did not lock like regular jigsaw puzzles and had irregular pieces (I would say a lot). He needed my […]
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