Category: Feb 23
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A Mommy in Action
A brisk walk in my neighborhood park, I view many things. The kids in the playground the baseball and softball team in action, the future cheerleaders cheering up the youth football league and so on. But the past three years I have seen a Mommy in action all April. The killdeer bird nesting itself in…
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Happy Earth Day and more
We made an unplanned visit to New Jersey last weekend for some personal reasons. It added to the tiredness I already had with our vacation in Florida and our house getting some makeover. The construction crew left the house with lot of cement and wood dust and I (we) have been cleaning non stop. When…
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Lunch Time for FSS
It’s time for my weekly Story Starter prompt. Here’s how it works. Every Tuesday morning (my time), I’m going to give you a “teaser” sentence or sentence fragment and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a story (prose or poetry) around that sentence/fragment. It doesn’t have to be the first…
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A piece of cake for Amma 🍰
Weekend was hectic because of an unplanned long drive . Had to go off my diet. I saw to it I didn’t take much carbs but somehow gained some extra pounds. I hope it is just water weight 😀.So all next week would be catching up on the diet. (It will be more soups and…
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Tamil New Year/Vishu
I used my brother’s picture on my last blog. Okay as I woke up early today morning it is our New Year, Puthandu, Vishu all in one and my brother had sent me two pictures. A shastiabdapoorthy or 60th birthday celebration lunch he had consumed. His boasting how he finished the entrie leaf/plate in 15…
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Empty Nesters
As I prepare my younger kid to college I remember a deep conversation we had with our Guru many years back. He suggested my son can be placed in a special needs home. My son was soon going to be 18 at that time and it really shocked our family. I asked him was it…
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A broken doll for FFF Challenge #214
Welcome to Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge. Each week I will be posting a photo I grab off the internet and challenging bloggers to write a flash fiction piece or a poem inspired by the photo. There are no style or word limits. The image below is from Viktor Forgacs at Unsplash. For the visually challenged…
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Being out in the sun
We were in Florida last weekend. We did not go to Orlando but much south down to Miami and Everglades region. Most of you know what they are famous for. The alligators 🐊 are supposed to rule that region. But it seems pythons are now common. The first day on a swamp buggy tour, our…
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An airplane trip finally
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic? After nearly 5 and half years my family flew on an airplane. We returned back today after a 5 day trip to Florida. Two months back I was talking to my friend and said I may never travel again since I am…
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Being in another’s shoes
What’s something most people don’t understand? There is a famous saying in my language. You can understand tooth ache and headache only when you experience it. What the proverb tries to say is we can talk about awareness and understanding others issues all we want but until you experience the same on a personal level…
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Wishes and goals!
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? Yesterday I was talking to my Mom and she said, I really wanted something to happen but did not crave for it. But it happened! I am so happy. That is when I told her, I usually see some advertisements on…
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A personal touch! WDYS #179
Image Credit; Axel Ruffini @ Unsplash Ray looked at the picture. The company logo looked fine. But something was bothering him. His was a construction company. He loved that all the work his men did. They used their hands and the logo fit perfectly. Yet it did not satisfy him. The computer generated hand was not what…
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Simple Things!
Our neighborhood ice-cream shop opened last Tuesday and we were lucky the weather was good that afternoon for an ice-cream. I took a picture of the ice-cream and my younger one said, oh this is for your blog! Of course I said! Winter is done and spring has arrived. We had a very mild winter.…
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Golden words!
It was the last day of school. The Kindergarteners were proud that they will be in first grade soon. They were becoming big. They felt they were an adult almost! Mrs. C decided to give the children a small assignment on this last day of school. She asked each student what they wanted to be…
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Patience
The next few weeks, due to one too many problems most of my basement needs to be renovated. This is my son’s sensory room and things need to be moved because of this. The work started yesterday and he could not sleep at all last night due to the anxiety that they had moved some…
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What I have binged on!
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? Ha Ha, When I saw this prompt I needed to write. I have binged on NCIS. There are certain seasons I love more than the others and felt sad whenever a major character left the series. I still watch it on CBS streaming…
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Smoke, WDYS #177
For Sadje’s What do you see #177 Image credit; Leighann Blackwood @ Unsplash The final moments of the game was on. The two teams were tied and just seconds remaining the ball flew and hit his head and he could smell smoke. John shuddered and realized he had dozed off watching college hoops and was woken up…
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Intermittent Fasting and Eating out 😊
Second week of intermittent fasting done. We are 12 hours fasting from 6 pm to 6 am. Me and my husband are targeting a healthy lifestyle and this seems to be a good approach. The past two years I have gone on a diet and had lost significant weight which I want to maintain. So…
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Fandango’s Flashback Friday, Legos, Part 2
I love to read Fandango’s Flashback Friday since I am new to blogging and all of his flashbacks are new to me. I never had a chance to write my own since I never had one for that particular day. But when I looked at my archives I saw that I had a very good…
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Little Jimmy’s thoughts for WDYS #176
For Sadje’s What do you see? Little Jimmy loved his new home. He loved his new family. He was being called foxy since he looked like one by the children in his household. What he didn’t like was being carried around in that bag like a baby. But he loved his family so much he…
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