Tag: family
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A 70s Love Story
It was her birthday tomorrow. It was the first time she was going to celebrate without her parents and in her newly married joint family home. He knew there would not be a celebration like she used to have while she was at her parents. He could hear a song from the latest movie Bobby…
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Newspapers
Does this picture inspire you to write something? Image credit; The Ian @ Unsplash When I was growing up my Grandfather was keen on reading the obituaries in the newspaper. It has been years since I have bought a printed newspaper and really sad that current generation has no clue about the excitement it used to bring…
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Charm Bracelet
I realized only today morning that I was wearing a charm bracelet made by special one. He made this at his social group, the theme being Mardi Gras. He has made and I have helped him make many things in the past but I have never worn anything. We made a mask yesterday and a…
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Lake Ontario
Deep grateful thanks to the State Department employees who sent all our renewed passports last week much to our suprise that we could do an impulse trip to Toronto for President’s Day Weekend. It has been more than 5 years since we crossed the border so this trip was truly exciting. Toronto was cold but…
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Things People play with!
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge : Last week was Things People Grow and this week it is Things People play with! When my special one was 3, we started browsing the internet for various therapies and one of them was Floor Time. This was a method developed by Dr. Greenspan and it involved tons of…
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Head held up high
#WDYS Does this picture inspire you to write something? Image credit; Deniel Argenal @ Unsplash The woman is shorter than a giraffe, but is having her head held up high and the giraffe, even though taller has the head down looking at her. The beautiful sky makes me want to analyze more about the scenario. A small…
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is now all commercial. But I donot mind a little bit of celebrations in the middle of winter and the past 24 hrs I have been celebrating the same with my special one. A party at his program with games and food. He won a prize for scoring the most in the bean…
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Nature Therapy!
For Fandango’s Flash fiction challenge #206 Fiction inspired by the photo! Sending Fandango all the positive vibes for a quick recovery. Walking back from a doctor’s appointment the man felt hopeless. The list of tests, the medications made his head spin. As he slowly walked, the beautiful sunset caught his eye. He decided to sit…
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From the bottom of my heart
A few months back I wrote a post called when the waves stop (you can read in the link), that my boy would be performing at Sri Venkateshwara Temple, Pittsburgh. Yes, my boy did perform during Navaratri and it was a success story. We did not record but were surprised when friends sent me messages…
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CFFC: Things People Grow!
It was 70 degrees for us yesterday and it felt like spring. What a nice time to remember all the vegetables that was grown in our garden through the years. For CFFC: Things People Grow The green pumpkin was a surprise many years ago. We had just planted zucchini and for many months we did…
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Not in the routine!
Last weekend I spent a lot of time lying on the bed and binge watching Tintin on my ipad. I caught a bug and according to my younger one I was enjoying my life. I was not too sick but had to rest myself so I could get better fast for the week ahead. I…
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It’s February
We have a solid prediction from a very reliable source that it is going to be 6 more weeks of winter! Happy Groundhog Day All! I found this picture on my phone. I think it was a meme made by my younger one with help of snap. So true! A short month with just 28…
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Bloganuary Sets Down
Where is the best place to watch the sunset near you? As Bloganuary sets down on the last day of January I thank Mindy Postoff for posting the prompts and all the bloggers who participated along with me and encouraged me on this 31 day journey. It was a huge distraction for me and I…
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Bloganuary Day 30, Autobiography?
Prompt provided today? What would you title the chapters of your autobiography? I really laughed out loud reading today’s prompt. All month long the prompts asked us so many personal questions. Many days I did not hesitate to answer them since mine is a personal blog. I kept thinking I can just put all the…
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Bloganuary Day 29, New Learning
Prompt for today What is something you learned recently? This is really interesting since I just made a blogpost a couple of days back. In fact that was the only post I made on my own in the month of January. I just wrote for Bloganuary prompts so when this question popped up I felt…
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Bloganuary Day 28, A cake
Describe your perfect birthday cake. My tradition does not have cutting a cake for birthdays. Even after I got married and I came to this country, that was not a thing we did. But as my special one started understanding things he understood birthday means pizza and cake. We did not invite anyone but everyone’s…
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Bloganuary Day 27, Procrastination
What are the pros and cons of procrastination? I usually write and post my blogs as soon as they are posted or say within an hour. But today I got into so many things that I postponed and it is lunch time and I am just rushing off to write something. If I miss this,…
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The Meaning of Guru
For the past two weeks I have been attending Guru Gita classes. A verse in the text refers to the meaning of “Guru”. “Gu” represents, darkness or ignorance and the syllable “ru” stands for light or knowledge. So Guru is the one who dispels darkness or ignorance. The term Guru is now referred so casually.…
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Bloganuary Day 26, Multilingual
What language do you wish you could speak? Oh I would love to be multilingual. Is there any specific language? No there is not. I feel learning any new language is good for the brain. In fact on one Bloganuary question I did mention about my younger one not able to speak his mother tongue.…
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Bloganuary Day 25, Bhagavad Gita🙏
What is a song or poem that speaks to you and why? A picture of Lord Krishna being a charioteer, guides Arjuna in the battlefield. Bhagavad Gita, The song by Lord is a Holy Text of Hindus. It was a teaching done by Lord Krishna to Arjuna in the midst of the battle field to…
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