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Friday Fictioneers 290324: Dance

The prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneer’s challenge hosted by Rochelle, is the below photo by Dale. ‘Come on, darling. We’re getting late to class,” Sonia coaxed Sara, locking the car. Sara dragged her feet to the single storey building that housed her nightmare. Why did she have to learn to dance? Every minute of […]

Easter Sunday & NaPoWriMo 2024- Day 0: The window

First, I’d like to wish everyone who celebrates, a very Happy and blessed Easter! It’s that time of the year again- I’m talking about NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month). This is my 6th year participating in NaPoWriMo. I wasn’t sure about participating this year as I was due for a surgery on the 25th of […]

Tanka Tuesday 26.3.24, Art Diaries : The girl in the yellow dress

This week for the tanka tuesday challenge hosted by Colleen Chesebro, I’m writing a series of tanka. The weather is cool in Dhaka. It’s been raining and we’ve had thunderstorms, lightning and short bursts of rain. I used the kigo word ‘Birds enter clouds’. ‘Tranquil Dawn’ and ‘Holi’ which is the festival of colors celebrated […]

First year anniversary

I woke up feeling different today. I wasn’t sure why but it felt like something had lifted off me leaving me lighter. Since I had no idea why I was feeling the way I was, I decided it was the thunder, lightning and rain we had the previous night that had worked its magic. There […]

Dhaka Diaries : Tanka Tuesday, Art of the week, Thankful Thursday. Happy World Poetry Day!

I wish I had a door to participate in the Thursday Doors Challenge. But I’m afraid I have none. So, instead this post is going to have a little poetry, some conversation, photographs, art and a lot of gratitude. For this week’s Tanka Tuesday challenge, I’m writing a tanka. ‘ A tanka has a 5-7-5-7-7 […]

Book Review 06/50 : Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The book has been lying on my bookshelf since 24.07.2010! That’s what the date on the book followed by my husband’s signature says. Each time I heard him quote from the book, “You need to put in 10,000 hours of work to become an expert at what you do,” I thought, ‘I need to read […]

Sunday Stills: Sunrises and Sunsets

Picture: Mumbai Sunset Terri’s Sunday still challenge this week was to post pictures of sunrises and sunsets. I had to participate. I’m not a great photographer but I love taking pictures. And, since I am a morning person who enjoys watching the sunrise, I have loads of pictures. Fortunately, for me, our living room faces […]

Friday Fictioneers : There’s always a first time

Reema stared at the waves nervously. Amit hadn’t objected when she had told him. And a month later, here she was, in the South of France on a plein air painting course. ‘That’s a good spot you’ve chosen. You can paint there,’ Ray said. Reema put her easel down and placed her canvas on it. […]

It’s Thursday! Doors, Gratitude, Inspiration

Another week has gone by and I’ve been busy. It’s safe to say I’ve found my tribe in Dhaka and we went exploring the older part of the city (which I’ve written about in another post) on Women’s Day. The doors I have in this post are from that day. This is for the Thursday […]

Art and Poetry: Sunflowers & Tanka Tuesday 120324

This time I tried painting sunflowers despite the fact that I find flowers the most challenging to paint. I think it’s being able to show the soft texture of the petals, the fluidity and the many shades of colors that makes it a tough subject for me. As I struggled with the painting and it […]