“While there are lots of books available on retirement, the only book that really matters is the one that you write yourself”. What am I doing talking about retirement, aka the golden years? As far as I am concerned there’s no such thing. But a close relative of ours recently retired…
Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
“I want to enroll for the 3-month Spanish course” “But we can’t afford the fee now” “I really want to do it. There’s an opportunity for a wonderful part-time job!” Sigh. As you might have guessed, that didn’t happen, of course. The savings we had was earmarked for a number of…
It is a rocky road to the Red Carpet. Nobody achieves greatness overnight (and if they do, it is usually temporary). Failures ARE the stepping stones to success. And thus emerge inspiring quotes about life from those who’ve walked the walk and talked the talk. And as my dearly beloved Prince…
Collecting junk as we pass through life is something none of us can avoid. Who doesn’t have those once-lovely things that comfortably occupy space around the home or office? So hard to get rid of them. In fact, many of these things are long-forgotten until we resolve to clear the clutter,…
Parenting children is a joyride. A high-speed joyride that seems to slow down only once in a while and in the process, ends up making you feel as though you’re aging a lot faster than you should be. The constant busy-ness around the children, worrying about them, making sure they ate/did…
Did you look forward to the Gratitude Circle blog hop as much as I did? I was a little sad about skipping it in April, but everyone was busy with the A to Z Challenge and I didn’t want to add this. Although, nothing difficult about writing a gratitude list, eh?…
My son is home for the much-awaited holidays and I am a little shocked to realize that two weeks have whizzed by in a flurry of activity catching up on various things. Of course I had been happily planning away, determined to have a good time together while also getting things…