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Last 3 hours to vote for Cover of the Month

I’m going to keep this post short. If you haven’t voted until yet or voted in the previous rounds, here’s the link to vote for the fourth and final round of voting for Cover of the month for July. I appreciate you taking the time to vote. https://allauthor.com/cover-of-the-mo... A big ‘Thank you’ to all those […]

Norway Diaries 5 : A visit to Hardangerfjorden & Tanka Tuesday challenge# 330

After coming down from Mount Fløyen we took the car to Norway’s second largest fjord, Hardangerfjorden. Google said the drive to the fjord from Bergen would take us approximately 2 hours. It took us double the time to reach the place because the scene that unfolded before us as we drove was far too beautiful not […]

Norway Diaries 5 : A visit to Hardangerfjorden

After coming down from Mount Fløyen we took the car to Norway’s second largest fjord, Hardangerfjorden. Google said the drive to the fjord from Bergen would take us approximately 2 hours. It took us double the time to reach the place because the scene that unfolded before us as we drove was far too beautiful not […]

SoCS : I won! Not once, but twice, today. In conversation with Dan Antion

I’m participating in Linda G Hills SoCs (Stream of Consciousness Saturday) challenge. The prompt for today is ‘one/won’. The challenge requires that we go with the flow to write a post on the prompt without editing or giving it prior thought. Today’s prompt came easy. When I opened my WordPress to begin writing for the […]

Thursday Doors 270723- Stockholm Part 2

On our second day in Sweden we went window shopping. Well, we had only half-a-day as our flight to Oslo was at around 4.00 p.m. and it began pouring at around 2.00 p.m. Sweden is a great place to shop if you’re one of those who loves brands, like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada, Hermès, Tumi or […]

Wordless Wednesdays 250723- Colors of Morocco

My sister sent me this photograph from her trip to Morocco in March. It’s been lying in my folder waiting to be shared. There’s so much about this picture that I love – the blue wall, the colors, the rolled-up sacks; the ordinariness of it all that makes it so unique. Copyright@smithavishwanathsblog.com. All Rights Reserved.

Vote now for the fourth and final round of voting for Cover of the Month

I received this message from AllAuthors.com this morning. Needless to say I was thrilled. But, with the thrill came the exhaustion of knowing that I would have to ask for people to vote for me. I suck at popularity contests but I’m still doing this because I suck more at quitting. So, to all those […]

Book Review by Michelle Ayon Navajas of my novel, Coming Home

I’m floored by Michelle Ayon Navajas’s review of ‘Coming Home’. Michelle was a former college professor, teaching literature, speech & oral communication, creative writing, drama, and theatre arts. She is also a graduate of Mass Communications major in Journalism (Centro Escolar University, Manila). Currently, Michelle holds the title of having 4 books published in a […]

#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 329, 7/18/23 – Specific Form

I’m participatin in Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday, which requires us to write a Imayo. A Imayo is a syllabic poetry of four 12 syllable lines. You can read an example here. This Tuesday, as per the prompt the subject of the Imayo should be a ‘Bird’. I wrote on the Eurasian Magpie, a bird I spotted […]

Norway Diaries 4: A walk up Mount Fløyen

We spent three days in beautiful Bergen in a B&B halfway up Mount Fløyen which is 400 m above sea level. It’s called a city mountain as Bergen city is at the foot of the mountain and makes for a perfect location for those who wish to explore Bergen. You get to experience the beauty […]