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Do you see yourself as a leader? WordPress is running out of ideas for prompts, since they had a similar one asking if we are a leader or a follower. I did answer that I was a team player. Okay, today morning I realized I had become a leader finally. I have been making my…
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What’s your favorite word? Any time, I have thrown in the towel, I have hurt myself more. So I like the words patience and positivity. I remember a night, I sat crying knowing my boy would be autistic. I couldn’t sleep that night (jet lagged in India maybe another reason.) But, we have never lost…
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What are you doing this evening? The day has not gone as I wanted. I had a class in the evening which got cancelled. So my evening is pretty much free. I have been a bit irritated too all day long and I attribute to my change in diet. Oil and me have a bad…
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As the temperatures drop below 70 degrees at night and as I search for my sweatshirts I remember about the plants that I need to bring in. I had been very very careful not to collect these yet, I end up with plants that need to bring come inside. I just have one window that…
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Anyone who grew up eating curd rice would say their soul food or comfort food is curd rice. Rice with whole milk yogurt (curd) salt and seasonings like ginger and chilly add a taste that no other food can compensate. Gluten and casein free food was suggested for my special boy when he was a…
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How do you relax? We humans have evolved so fast the past few years. Our cell phones bring the world to us. There are apps and videos that teach you how to relax. In fact a WordPress prompt asked what brings me peace. I wrote a blog and you can check it out here. I…
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Last Saturday I went on a roller coaster ride after many years. But my week has been a roller coaster of emotions. If you think of an emotion, I can say with confidence I experienced it. To change my thoughts, I decided to make YouTube videos of our Florida trip. It is easy to make…
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This was another plant that was gifted to me by my brother and his wife. I remember sucking the flowers for the honey in it while growing up in India. Called Thechi poo in malayalam is an offering to Lord Krishna at Guruvayoor and being His birthday I was fortunate to offer the same to…
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What does your ideal home look like? My ideal home should look like houses on HGTV. Does it? No! It does not! Should I be worried or am I worried? No, I am not. We have things lying around. My laundry may be folded a day or two late and my house may have some…
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Why do you blog? Today morning I woke after sleeping for more than eight hours at stretch. I called my Mom and told her that in my dream my dead grandparents had contracted covid😃! My Mom was their caretaker for many years so we had a laugh about it. So why was I so tired?…
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How are you feeling right now? Sunday night for a wordpress prompt I committed myself saying I would be cooking with my boy every day for the next day ten days. Five days done, and I would say my boy has cooked something with me every day. This week was not great. I would say…
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What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? For the past six years I have been trying to do atleast 10,000 steps a day. Usually with my small steps that is 4 miles. I wanted to loose weight by walking but that did not happen. I had to cut down my…
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Image Credit; Tobias Tullius @ Unsplash With heavy heart Sam inserted the cassette. He was giving away his car and dropping it off. It has become more of a liability. Not only was it difficult to maintain, he had decided to go green and get an electric car. The one thing his electric car didn’t have was…
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What TV shows did you watch as a kid? Television was a luxury when I was growing up in India. In fact color Television was considered a pride. We just had one channel and we didn’t have many shows. It wasn’t until early nineties we saw an influx of multiple channels and boy, it did…
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Took these pictures when I made a two mile walk with my boy in Presque Isle ten days back. I have the same hibiscus in my home, yet my curiosity made me get close up pictures. I had to balance myself on a rock and it was a small adventure for me. For Cee’s Flower…
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What’s your favorite recipe? Another day, and I am writing about food again. Anyway I am on a roll so why not. I am not a cook and was never interested in cooking. So many things made me a home maker and I can now make a decent meal. But I have been forced to…
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Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. It looks like all this week I have been writing about food or making videos about food. Okay, we all need food to survive and it is definitely part of our lives. Today we went to ISKCON, Krishna Temple in West Virginia. It was an…
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Today is Varalakshmi Pooja. A ritual I greatly enjoy. The past three days my boy had been helping me in the kitchen but today, I literally banned him since I really wanted some peace. A long list of food is prepared and offered and my white board was ready with that list. In fact I…
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Today was cooking day for my boy. Do you know cooking involves so many activities and sub activities that need fine and gross motor skills. Then, there are other activities around the house that needs to be attended to while cooking happens in the kitchen. So it was a busy day. Yesterday there was a…
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Irene looked up at the clock and saw that it was five minutes past seven. She was so tired after work that she thought she could take a quick nap for a few minutes but she did not expect to sleep for more than two hours. Her mind was raising thinking about her toddler, and…
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