Thank you for encouraging me to grow! — I started writing this post a couple of weeks ago, and even before I finished adjusting the halo around my head, well, the days whizzed by. Not to be fazed, however, I am here, with determination, to reflect on 2022. Here’s my A to Z of the things I treasure…

Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles. Did you smile today? — If there is one thing I truly enjoy, it is experimenting with things. Yes, I am the resident carpenter/plumber/electrician/mason/fixer-upper of all things at home and sometimes, to my neighbors. Sometimes this includes a clogged drain. I enjoy tinkering with things. Now, I’ve been toying with the idea of starting my…

Welcome to my profile — November 2021 — After more than a decade in the corporate world in sales/marketing/training, I took off my 4-inch heels, dumped my expensive handbags, donated my wardrobe of 300+ sarees, quit my corporate career, and got married to my soulmate, and moved to his city. Of course, I imagined I would be back at work after a short sabbatical, but the most wonderful thing happened to me.

My greatest role model — My Mother was my mentor, my best friend (still is), and my inspiration. My coffee mate. My Angel. In spite of a hard life, she always smiled and encouraged. She was always kind and loving and ever ready to help others. Even through her illness during the last years of…

All tangled in a happy-ass web — The prompt is “The first memory you have from your childhood” I am having trouble now separating the chaff from the . . . wheat. Oddly, I can clearly recall what happened when I was two and a half, but I don’t want to talk about that since I already…

I can dream, can’t I? The sickest I’ve ever been — It was 1985. Life was hectic. I had an 8.30 to 5.30 job (yeah, I know) which was a joke since we often stayed late. The commute was a long one and I left home around 7 am to get to work. A few months into the job, I enrolled…

January Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Hometown Pride” — My hometown is freshly ground heaven Legend has it that, Baba Budan, who was on a pilgrimage in 1670, managed to smuggle seven coffee seeds through customs (or whatever they had those days) to India from Yemen. Yep — ordinary people weren’t allowed it in their luggage. These seeds were then planted in the hills of…

The Most Awkward Situation I’ve Ever Been In — So — I just read Katie Michaelson’s post for this prompt where she talks about falling flat on her ass in front of a room full of students. In the beginning of her post, about the prompt, she asks: Does a writer friend of yours do that to you? I…