An ingenious new browser plug-in

This plug-in replaces the word "literally" with "figuratively" on articles across the web.

Unfortunately, the plug-in is not able to spot the correct usage of the word literally, "so if you install it, you'll also start seeing the word 'figuratively' to describe things that are literally true, as in, 'White Sox Rookie Abreu Figuratively Destroys a Baseball.' (The baseball was in fact destroyed)," says Slate.

Interested? You'll find more on this at: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/apr/22/literally-figurative-program-misuse-plugin-browser?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Mubble fubbles

This word describes a state of depression or melancholy, despondency, low spirits.

Let me take you out of your mubble fubbles would mean let me help you get over your low spirits.

I'm charmed by this word, because I think just using it - I'm in mubble fubbles - would help lift the dark curtain that occasionally falls over the heart.

Deeply affected by Asra Q. Nomani's 'Standing Alone in Mecca'

What a book! What courage and most importantly, what honesty.....amazing honesty. This book cleared all the cobwebs in my head about Christianity, even as it clearly defines the beauty of Islam.

Some thoughts beautifully crafted...

I spent my young adulthood trying to understand the amalgamation of identities within me.
(Anyone born in India would be able to identify with this)

The deepest boundaries we have are within ourselves. We are often most constrained by the fears that keep us from crossing the boundaries.

The present and the future define us not the past.

Gorgeous imagery

Reading about Maya Angelou (my favorite author, role model and the person I admire the absolute most) on How to Write—and How to Live on Oprah.com, I came across this line


"Good morning," she says, her voice like black coffee with a splash of bourbon. Even over the phone, you can hear her smile.

So important to use the right words

According to today's Daily Writing Tips - http://www.dailywritingtips.com/ -

The Internet existed before the Web.

The internet - i in the lower case - was “a computer network consisting of or connecting a number of smaller networks, such as two or more local area networks connected by a shared communications protocol.”

The Internet - I in the upper case - is a global computer network that offers a range of communication facilities, one of which is the Web or the World Wide Web created in the 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee, a graduate of Oxford University. He created a system of interlinked documents (e.g., web pages) that could be easily accessed by anyone using a browser.

Besides the Web, the other services that run on the Internet are the email, FTP, and Skype.

An eloquent sentence

from Vicki Archer of the fabulous blog French Essence.

I won a vintage print in one of her competitions. She sent me a personalized card with the gorgeous print. She wrote -

'It is with such great pleasure that I send you this vintage print. I am sure that it will feel completely at home...'

Somehow, this sentence - 'I am sure that it will feel completely at home' touched a deep chord, and instantly linked me, in far-off India, with the world of French Essence.