“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.” I learned that poem by W.H.Davies in school and loved it. For some reason it has stayed with me, sitting in my mind, perhaps as a reminder for those days when I let myself feel…
Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
I’ll bet that almost each one of you went into reflection mode in the last week of December, 2016 to take stock of the year gone by and contemplated—maybe even evaluated your lives to see if the year had lived up to your expectations. Did it? I know it is not…
Each year, I set myself a rough target for donating money to charities. This also helps me make plans in relation to how much work I need to do to be able to meet this goal. But as a freelancer, there are months when work is not as steady as I’d…



