I had recorded this post during my early morning walk at last week. The below post has been edited and updated at the time of publishing. On the morning of September 14th 2022, I decided to change my morning routine a bit- after walking Buddy early in the morning, I…
Category: Writing
Learning the English language using “old school” ways
I was a participant in a recent discussion on “How to learn English”. I could relate to the discussion quite a bit, because till the time I was 15 years old, my English was sub-par. Some great teachers, a school that encouraged reading and creative writing, and several novels helped…
Obituary: E. Alexandra Mary
A 96 year old widow E. Alexandra Mary breathed her last in her family’s vacation home yesterday. She leaves behind four children – Anne, Andrew, Edward and Charles, and their spouses and offspring. Alexandra Mary’s husband Philip had died last year, and she herself was unwell for the past several…
Conclusion of February 2022 Blogging challenge and Way Forward
Welcome to Day 28 of the February 2022 blogging challenge. Today is a Monday, and the theme for Mondays is on podcasting under “MyPod Mondays”. I will be publishing a separate post on my podcasting blog, something that I haven’t done for the past two weeks. I had planned to…
Side Note: How I count the Words for blog posts
I use a variety of writing tools and programs for my blog posts. One my goals is to try different SaaS (Software As a Service) tools that we have subscribed. The challenge is, many of these tools count words in a different manner. In order to avoid any mis-understanding, I…
Spring cleaning this blog
Today being a Sunday, I was scheduled to publish a post on the theme “SaaSy Sundays” that is, writing about Software as a Service products that I use for gaathastory or for this blog. Instead, I am publishing the below update Update Progress with blogging in Feb 2022: 7 posts…
February Blogging Challenge: Publish One Post Per Day
During the month of February 2022, my aim is to publish at least one blog post of 800 words on my blog. The purpose behind this challenge is twofold. First of all, I had resolved last year to publish one post of atleast 500 words every day for 100 days…
Spicing up this blog- Introducing Themes
While re-designing my blog site and author site, I thought of adding some method to help with my writing habit. I will publish post along pre-determined categories or themes for the blog themes. Each day will have a “Themes” or topics for every day of the week. You can track…
Hindi-Test
नीचे दी गई पोस्ट “वेबसाइट की गति और प्रदर्शन के लिए सीडीएन या सामग्री वितरण नेटवर्क का उपयोग कैसे करें” के बारे में है। यह अगले कुछ दिनों के लिए एक कार्य प्रगति पर है- कम से कम 2020 के मध्य मई 2020 तक। मैं चाहता था कि यह एक…
Where to find Royalty Free stock images for my blog?
Someone asked this question in a facebook group recently: Where to find Royalty Free Stock photos for my blog? Graphic design program such as Canva and Crello have good libraries of stock images.