Creative Meanderings

So, it’s now two weeks (less) before R will be back. Yippeeee!!! However, I had planned to have my literature review chapter finished by the time he got back and now I am not sure that is going to happen. Plus, my supervisor has stopped contacting me, probably waiting on me to get something done…. Why am I having such a hard time getting myself to sit down and do some work? I…

Somehow I thought that I would write more this week, but it seems that I have been keeping a busier social schedule than I should or planned. Of course, I love having someone to have dinner with regularly and go out and do things with, but it does not lend itself to me getting other things done! hehe. Oh well. Anyway, work-wise, the week was fine. There were some interesting moments at the…

i wonder if i have used this title before??? Lately I have been wondering if I should consider seeing a therapist again even though my last one seems to have disappeared on me with no word left on where or why. It is very difficult for me to start all over again as it has been hard enough to start in the first place. R’s aunt recommended a life coach based in LA…

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,…

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…

  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…