I read this beautiful poem called My soul has a hat and I wanted to share it with you! My soul has a hat I counted my years and realized that I have Less time to live by, Than I have lived so far. I feel like a child who won…
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As per tradition, here are my Reflections on the A to Z Challenge 2019–its tenth-anniversary edition, no less, and my seventh! I started off the A to Z Challenge this year with a bang on four blogs. Amazing, right? But that fizzled down to two because I just couldn’t keep up,…
In these days of information overload, don’t you often wish you had a reset button? With all the noise we hear online, don’t you wish there was a delete button you could use to get rid of the negative stuff, the FOMO, the fear . . . off your mind? Lately,…
So, there was this teacher who asked her students to get ready for a surprise test. Of course, the students groaned good-naturedly because who likes surprise tests? Assuring them it would be quite simple as they waited at their desks anxiously, she handed out the question papers face-down, as usual. After…
Sometimes, we have to take stock of the people in our lives to see if we need to sign the zero tolerance contract with them. And every once in a while, we must ask ourselves some uncomfortable questions if we want to be happy. What are we willing to tolerate when…
I had the usual ups and downs and I am just not in the mood to even talk about the downs, because today I want to practice what I preach. Voicing my gratitude is the best way, I thought. Attending the National Workshop on Regulatory Compliance for Accelerating Innovations at C-CAMP,…
You’ve probably lost count of the number of times you’ve read the story of the chained elephant, right? Okay one more time. Humor me. The elephant. Wild, free to explore, to discover and enjoy the beauty of its natural habitat. Yet, this massive powerful creature succumbs to a life tethered to…