Yes, smile please! Turn that frown upside down! September, my birthday month went by in a happy haze of fitness classes, lots of cooking, marathon phone calls catching up with friends and continued conversations, some work and a birthday I am absolutely grateful for. I spent any free time binge-watching Hawaii Five-O on Amazon Prime. I also made a resolution…
Do you find time to smile? When was the last time you smiled spontaneously? Seriously. Can you remember the last time you smiled? Or did something just because it made you smile? If you’re thinking hard, trying to recall, it is time to find time to smile! I’ve got a short 4-step exercise for you. The aim of this exercise…
When I wrote my first post on 8 July 2003, little did I realize that blogging would become one of my most enjoyable activities and help me grow as a writer, connect me with amazing people, take me virtually across the world into the hearts of so many people. It’s been a joy collecting smiles. July is an auspicious month…
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, thanks to work overload and deadlines that had to…
Today is World Smile Day! Smiling is infectious, contagious. Do you agree? When we smile at someone, they automatically smile back at us. Well, most people, that is. Smiling definitely feels good; there’s a rush of endorphins-dopamine-serotonin—all of which are responsible for making us feel good. And of course, the more often you smile, the better, eh? While helping us…