Tag: #roots

• Going Home or Going Away From Home

  

  It feels like a really long time since I wrote. I’m not counting poetry. One thing and another, and I’ve been on a roller-coaster ride, over which I’ve had little or no control. Time is not the excuse I’m making. But with everything else taking priority and squeezing every ounce of energy, my brain’s on…

  Smitha V

  June 21, 2018

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #evolution, #evolutionoftheexpatriate, #fearofunknown, #home, #India, #life, #lifeintheUAE, #patriotism, #returnoftheexpatriate, #roots, #UAE, #writers’block, change, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary

• When words desert you…life gives you a story to write about…

  

  Random Ramblings… I was given a laptop over the weekend by my better half. Using the desktop had meant I couldn’t prop myself on the bed and type away as and when I pleased; now that I was a writer (bloggers are also writers of some sort you know). The message over the laptop said “Happy Blogging”. Now…

  Smitha V

  October 6, 2017

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #daringtodream, #foreignland, #India, #life, #movingplaces, #roots, #writers’block, Creative Writing, Experiences

• Time to go Home

  

  As much as I love the land that I have lived in for almost my entire life, come June and l long for something more. A longing that reminds me that no matter where I go and how happy I am, I cannot be at ease unless I return. As the countdown to the holidays begin,…

  Smitha V

  June 16, 2017

  Experiences, Poetry

  #backtoyourroots, #expatriate, #goingbackhome, #immigrant, #India, #longing, #missinghome, #NaPoWriMo 2017, #postaweek, #roots, Experiences, Poetry

• Nostalgia -Going Back to the Roots…

  

  Mangalore is a coastal city in the southwest of India. Coconut trees, paddy fields, buffalo races, temples, beaches, a life that moves at it’s own pace is what makes this place so different from the other cities in India. It was the only place I visited year after year, every summer holiday because it was where grandma…

  Smitha V

  October 10, 2016

  Experiences

  #childhood, #diary, #emotions, #everydayinspiration, #experience, #goingbackhome, #grandma’s home, #life, #mangaloredays, #memories, #movingon, #nostalgia, #parenting, #roots, Experiences, My diary