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Posts published by “Vidya Sury”

Writer, Editor, Blogger, Influencer.

I blog/create content for businesses and edit manuscripts for authors and publishers.

On my blogs, I write about all the things I enjoy in life: parenting, personal development, health and wellness, books, food, travel, gratitude, mindfulness, happiness.

In my free time I play with my dust bunnies and show my diabetes who's boss.

Time for Nostalgia

Word for the day – power cuts. Thank you, Mr Chief Minister! We like to regress, not progress. Just shows how much we depend on electricity. And why not? It is the techno-age, eh? Power cuts are not all that bad when they are scheduled and of short duration. But…

Dinner by led light

Today has mostly been a dark day, with powercuts practically every alternate hour A day of dealing with Murphy’s Law. As it grew darker, we made do with the led light from the laptop and even had dinner by led light. Okay – battery down to 20%. Should shut off.…

Quality time

I got to spend some quality time with me, Vidur, the doc, and a book. Okay, my work associates will frown at this – because I actually ought to have been spending quality time with work. But what the heck, its okay to play hooky once in a while. That’s…

Licensed to bill

And those three words sum up any contractor, I guess. Our dear Sid has to come back to finish the “touch up”. I love the way they explain the job they plan to do – and impress the hell out of us. And then, coolly take the short cut. Bunk…

6 months to the day

Today is six months since I lost my mother, Devi, on Feb 8 this year. Served  “tiffin” at Seva Sadan today at 3 pm. Was thinking how she would have enjoyed seeing those kids. I remembered how Vidur, she and I used to go on our Thursday annadanam to the…