Tag: Creative Writing

• A Little Sunshine Please…Need to dry the clothes…

  

  With the joy of travelling and seeing new places, tasting new flavours comes the dreary, mundane, task of having piles of dirty clothes that need to be washed and dried. After a week’s trip ” ghar bana dhobi ghat”. For those of you who are not familiar with Hindi, the national language of India, it simply […]

  Smitha V

  August 13, 2016

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #diary, #experience, #writing, Creative Writing, Experiences

• Hello World!

  

    I created this website 4 years ago but never actually used it because I had no clue as to how and where to begin. Well, if you think I’ve learnt a trick or two over these 4 years, you’re wrong- I haven’t! But I’ve realized the rules of writing are not that strict anymore […]

  Smitha V

  August 5, 2016

  Creative Writing, Experiences, Travel

  #blogging101, #diary, #experience, #parenting, #writing, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary, Travel

• I am not sure when I changed!!!

  

  I’ve been thinking how and when I changed. 15 years ago, I was this fun and care free person. No, I never broke rules but I laughed more, shopped more, went out more and I had promised not to change…I have 2 daughters 14 and 12 and I certainly am not an obsessive mother.  I started […]

  Smitha V

  August 5, 2016

  Creative Writing, Experiences, Mum’s World

  #diary, #experience, #life, #mothers, #parenting, Creative Writing, Experiences, Mum’s World

• The Joy of Baking…

  

  I am in total awe of anybody who can bake.  I simply love the smell of  dough baking in the oven. It brings back the memories of a childhood filled with stories by Enid Blyton where the kids would gather around the table chewing on cream scones, home-made bread, freshly baked cakes. In Poona (India) […]

  Smitha V

  March 12, 2016

  Creative Writing, Experiences, Mum’s World

  #bettycrocker, #diary, #experience, #mothers, #parenting, Creative Writing, Experiences, Mum’s World, My diary

• Another day with a teen and a tween!

  

  I had returned from a walk last evening when my tween said she wanted to ask me a question. I said, ” go ahead”. Not that it would have mattered for she would have asked me anyway. “Mamma, what do I mean when I say I am looking at somebody through rose – tinted glasses”. […]

  Smitha V

  March 11, 2016

  Creative Writing, Mum’s World

  #diary, #experience, #mothers, #parenting, Creative Writing, Mum’s World