Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Been busy and tired the past few days. Will update more soon….

  •   Last night, R’s mom passed away from liver cancer. She had outlived her husband by 17 years and survived breast cancer. MJ’s outlook on life was always positive and she embraced the beauty in the world and people. The last time I got to see her was Christmas 2011 when she came to visit us for two weeks. It was a treat for us all. Sadly, her physical presence is no longer…

  • _The Year of the Flood_ by Margaret Atwood Since I still had the freedom to keep reading, I decided to go ahead and read the second novel in the MaddAddam series. The first being _Oryx and Crake_ from a few weeks ago. The second novel is told from the perspective of two other characters who live through the “Waterless Flood” or pandemic that occurred in the first novel. The characters in both books…

  • So, the new academic year is approaching. Classes start off next Sunday morning – bright and early. This week has actually been a nice transition so far. On Sunday, we were expected to appear at some point in the day. So, I went and was seen..aka made the rounds – asking/answering the same questions – “How was the summer?” “What did you do?” “How about you?” “What level are you teaching this term?”…

  • _The Book of Tea_ by Kakuzo Okakura Since early in my Japan days and the days of Loren, this has been amongst my books to read, but never got to for various reasons. When I saw it was free to download on Kindle ages ago, I got it for that aloof ‘someday’. Well, ‘someday’ arrived this summer when I was nearing the end of my purchased books and I was not yet sure…

  • _Stillness Speaks_ by Eckhart Tolle This is the last of the _Power of Now_ series, if that is what they are called. It was not nearly as interesting or ‘helpful’ as the other two were, but it did still remind me of the importance of being quiet. Mostly, the book reiterates what is said in the previous two books about knowing yourself, going beyond the ego, etc. What I found most thought-provoking for…

  • _The Yellow Birds:  A Novel_ by Kevin Powers So…my reading frenzy has not quite ended yet; thus I will be updating more here over the next few days. 😉 A few months back my parents wanted to send a book on Kindle, but could not figure out how to do it and said they would give it to me for R when I got home. My dad passed it on to me saying…

  • So, I am always trying to find what is the ideal style for me because I am too lazy to do my hair regularly and I also do not want to look like a stereotypical Asian with long, straight, black hair. This summer, I thought I would go for the permed look again. Little did I know that in the States it is actually difficult to find a place that still does perms,…

  • It has been a very busy week and my continual writing has taken a short hiatus as I try to settle back into the real-world again. There will be more updates coming soon…. -T 😀

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