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 take priority over blogging. Which is a good thing because I don’t believe in stressful blogging. And so I took…
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…
I would ask you how often you hear that tiny voice inside your head, playing the role of your inner critic, always being “helpful” by throwing in doubts about your ability…but I think I already know the answer to…
We’d all like to make life easier, right? Who likes complicated? Not me. Life is hectic enough, as it is. Whether or not we want it, there is an abundance of just about everything we can think of. As…
Yesterday I spent the better part of the morning trying to clear a clogged drain. Took me longer than expected, because it was not the usual easy. During the process, as I waited for some ingredients to work their…
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” – Ralph H. Blum Seems like just the other day I had a birthday—and seems like this one arrived way to early. But who can control…
I really meant to get his post up on time, but zero network, stress over something that needed my offline presence and a multitude of other tiny things kept me from sticking to the date. Nevertheless, I am going…
