Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • When I arrived back ‘home’ after two months away I was disoriented and unsettled at being back. The apartment did not feel as if it was my home. Everything felt wrong from how I left it, though it was just a matter of a bit of messiness due to R being around after I left. 😉 Still, I felt strange in the space. So, when R headed back to NJ for his mom,…

  • Does being on my own cause my bipolar tendencies to act up? This question came to my mind today as I contemplated my sort of manic feelings of needing to accomplish a lot. Here’s what I did today: *Slept in (9.30) for me… *Search for a number of TV shows to download and began the downloads *Met a friend for lunch *Went grocery shopping, shopped at Daiso and bought two pairs of new…

  • It’s a strange cycle of life that we go through as teachers or maybe as expats in general. From an academic perspective, we work for 10 months with a few holidays here and there, then have nearly two months to ourselves and then return to another 10 months. While the rest of the population might envy our holiday time (2 weeks a year is unfathomable to us!) and some people might even think…

  • 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…

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