Our Masked and Unmasked Existences: #MondayMusings #PandemicDiaries2020
Who would have thought 2020 would be a year of masked and unmasked existences. Literally speaking, too.
Teach Peace: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
This #wordlesswednesday, thanks to my older poppet, I got a bunch of quotes from Pinterest to share. Never done this before here. Well, I’ve been having a bit of a health hiccup and I was not sure if I was up to posting at all. But she graciously volunteered to help out. So thankful to you, Arusha Sinha. 🙂 Arusha wanted me to use the “Teach Peace” quote, but all of them…
Unleashed: #FridayFictioneers
Families enjoy spending time with each other, at the Grand Hotel. It’s a perfect staycation when the melt down takes a toll. An excuse to break away from the madness of the city. Or one such thing. The blast is earth shattering. Maligned bodies lie strewn in the rubble. The grandeur razed to ground in just seconds. The rain pelts down like atomic bombs. Nature has unleashed it’s fury. Don’t go exploiting me anymore. That evening the sun appears,…
Wild Africa – African Adventures: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“The beauty of Africa is not man made, it is natures gift to humanity.” ― Paul Oxton WILD AFRICA I’m so grateful to the universe that we managed to go on our African holiday, last year in October. Little did we know in a few months and in a blink of an eye, safe travel would become a distant dream. Tanzania is a wondrous country in…
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow : #MondayBlogs
The pandemic sure is wrecking havoc globally, Â but it definitely has begun to equip us with innumerable coping mechanisms and life-skills which we never imagined we would imbibe. Take for instance my DH. He prefers getting a hair-cut almost every 10 days or so. Given the enormity of the lockdown, there was no way a hair cut would have happened in the weeks to come. His hair had begun to grow like a fertile forest and he was finding it…
Wilderness and Lockdown Skies – Part African Adventures: #WordlessWednesday
Wilderness and Lockdown Skies – Part African Adventures I re-visited Africa; East Africa to be precise while living a lockdown life. My city skies these days remind me of the skies in the African wilderness. A pure shade of azure and the air as crisp and clean as it could ever be. These are a few vignettes from Serengeti National Park, when we were there last…
Love in the times of Corona: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom #YeahWriteNonFiction
Redefining Love in the times of corona The other day I was on Twitter after a longish hiatus. I was thoroughly amused by this tweet by @sarahfarooqui20 Â Here’s what she said: “Some one should write Love in the Times of Corona. A poignant tale of love and longing in a masked world, embittered with social distance.” Most of us have read or heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece, “Love in the times of Cholera.” Â Inspired by Sarah Farooqui’s quote I…
Types of Love: #ValentinesDay Special
Valentine’s Day is the perfect occasion to commemorate love however you don’t always need romance to celebrate! Whether you are attending a festive friend’s brunch, treating yourself to a day of wellness and self-care or planning a romantic date night, I encourage you to look within and examine how your relationships make you feel. Every relationship can mean something different to you. This is due to there being different types of love associated with relationships. Every love is unique…
I Love Mondays: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“I LOVE MONDAYS” “A fresh new start. Chance to set a tone for the rest of the week, a great day to mobilise a whole new week and your dreams.” I LOVE MONDAYS A new week/a Monday spells new beginnings. I love Mondays. It sets the tone for my week, and translates to getting back to work, writing and the routine. I love schedules. Well, last week was rough, but the weekend prior to that…
Rosey, Kermit and a Shepherd Called Frank: #FridayFotoFiction #GuestPost #Blogiversary
My friend Rosey has been hanging around my blog for eleven years and appeared in about one hundred and twenty stories. In case you’ve not met, she’s an eternal thirty-something, a bit ditzy, lives a fun-filled single life, works as a teacher’s assistant at a school for little people and is the life and soul of any event she turns up at, invited or not! She now has a blog of her own where I share her anecdotes. To join…