Hello Readers!
I want to begin by expressing my gratitude to you for being around. Since 2013, many of you have have supported, read and encouraged me. I have never had a particular genre and during the initial days of blogging it bothered me. But that changed quickly. You have enjoyed memoirs, photo posts, travel stories, journaling and more. So the variety here made it easier for me to write and interesting for you to read.
From a free blog to hosting to going back to keeping things simple – blogging as it used to be, changed. It just evolved and readers’ attention span evolved too. From Vlogs to reels – writing and readers stepped into a new era. From Grammarly who could help with proper English, now AI can write in your style and for you. So where did authenticity go?
I digress.
Meanwhile, many like me kept writing for self and for the community we called ours. I kept paying for the domain and the hosting space and that wasn’t free so I tried to change things to bring expenses down.
This October, I forgot to pay for the domain and as you can imagine – someone else bought it. The domain that was home for so long wasn’t mine anymore. Yes, the company sent multiple emails. If the organization was based out of India, I would have got calls and text messages. But no. I got reminders over emails that I missed. I honestly did.
The outcome? I had to buy a new domain. So if you had bookmarked travel tales and posts that you loved, they are dead now. Luckily I was able to keep happinessandfood as the name and this blog is now available at www.happinessandfood.blog.
Thank you for reading and thank you for sticking around.
Vinitha, I can’t thank you for enough for noticing and sharing! If not you, I wouldn’t have figured this out so quickly. I am so grateful!
With gratitude,
Parul
