Life Stories is where the ordinary things sit before they become stories. A sentence overheard, a room remembered, a small irritation, a moment that looked harmless at first and then refused to leave. These pieces are about everyday life, memory, family, work, identity, and the strange ways we become ourselves while doing everything else.
The year was 2011, the month was July and we had been married just over 3 years. And we faced a big decision around changing our city. That meant moving out of home. Both of us had never lived away from home. Not for studies or our jobs. My first move out of my parents […]
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I have been with my husband for Two Thousand Five Hundred and Ninety Four days now. That’s a little over seven years 🙂 And yet, I can count on my fingers the days we felt truly together. These are precious days. These are days that are etched in my memory for being special and for making
A viral share in Facebook today made me think of Abandonment. A simple Google search will tell you hundreds of stories of abandoned girl babies or elderly parents. This physical abandoning is bad yes. Very bad. But in my mind, even worse is emotional abandonment. The state where you simply cease to care about the
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How tough is vacation planning these days??? As a child, our vacation planning used to be planning the route on a paper map and marking stopovers. Later on, we started booking ‘all taken care of’ vacation packages. With the advent of the internet, most of our vacation planning is done online. Right from booking flights, hotels,
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Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, Silver white winters that melt into springs, These are a few of my favorite things. My entry for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: My Favorite Things, Verse Three A Spring that is born of melting snow On another note, have you checked
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Motivational Quotes Believe in Yourself My entry for Word Crush Wednesday
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In response to Wordless Wednesday On Tuesday #WWoT
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I used to be an incurable romantic… who got cured. As a silly teenager, I was all hearts and roses. (Ooh… 50 shades reference!) And then one fine day, any kind for of mush started to irritate me. Romance took on a different meaning and I dissociated it from the filmy and Mills&Boon notions of
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You know in the blogging world, when I go missing like I did for a couple of days last week, my online friends ask me, “What Happened?” I always tell them , “Life Happened” And this time before I blurted that out I took a pause and thought to myself if I can really say
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